Talk:Spread of Islam

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Assessment comments The following comments were left by the assessors: (edit · refresh) My degree was in history and this article reads more like something you'd see on a nationalist-type website. This is really not very accurate and should be scrapped and a new impartial contributer found.

This article has a few passages with clearly biased points of view and should be written much more neutrally. Examples of quotes include "The infamous Hakim (Al-Hakim bi-amr-Allah, the sixth Egyptian Caliph, 996-1021, who became the god of the Druze) determined to destroy the Holy Sepulchre (In 1010.)" Infamus? God of the Druze? What? "Yet, in spite of all, Christianity failed, and Islam succeeded in gaining the Iranian race." I think there is a much better way of saying that. --213.174.190.59 17:11, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poor title

The title of this article, Islam Spread, sounds like some sort of butter or margarine product. I don't understand why this page was moved from Spread of Islam to here. I'm going to move it back because Spread of Islam is grammatically correct and this is not.--Lendorien 18:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Good call. Spread of Islam is the title I had in mind when I came here (without any searching).--Adoniscik (talk) 02:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge suggestion

I don't think this page should be merged with Islamization. Spread of Islam is mostly (or should) deal with the historical aspect of the religion's spread, whereas "Islamization" is a more recent concept, mainly to do with the more recent political manuvers. .--bandishhh 22 June 2007.

As an editor interested in historical aspects of Islam (and author of The coming of Islam to Indonesia (1200 to 1600)), I agree with bandishhh's assessment. Merbabu 08:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Merge does not mean simply that this page dissapears. Maybe what is needed is for the recharecterization of the Islamization page then or having it redirect to this one. Right now it has a lot of information that I see is pretty much an overlap with what we have here and it can all go into one page. Either here or there or even somewhere else. Right Islamization seems to trace the historical spread of Islam better than this page.--Tigeroo 00:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)