ACEH, NETRALNEWS.COM - Aceh is a province that almost one hundred percent of its people are Muslims. Many historians, both at home and abroad who argue that Islam first entered Indonesia through Aceh.
In a number of records, including Wikipedia, that Marco Polo who stopped at Perlak in 1292 declared the country had embraced Islam. So is Samudera Pasai, based on the tomb found in the former kingdom and news sources that exist that this kingdom has become an Islamic kingdom about 1270.
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On the history of the development of Islam in the region of Aceh in those early days, such as manuscripts from within the country itself such as the Book of Malay History, Hikayat Pasai Raja, written, a preacher named Sheikh Ismail has come from Makkah deliberately to the Ocean to Islamize the people there.
Islam that goes to Aceh in particular, and Indonesia generally, initially follow the streets and trading cities on the beach, then then spread to the interior. Merchants and preachers have played an important role in the spread of Islam.
