Abstract:Islam grew rapidly in the Malay world at the end of the 13th and early 14th centuries AD. It was spread by missionaries from Arab countries, India, Iraq and China. It comes along with the teachings of Sufism or tasawwuf-Islamic esoteric dimensions supported and complemented by Islamic exoteric Sharia practice. The mosque becomes a sacred symbol of importance to this religion. The construction of the mosque since the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) has shown a lot of changes. The typology of the Malay mosque ar… Show more
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