What Areas Were Islamic?

Adherence to Islam is a global phenomenon: Muslims predominate in some 30 to 40 countries, from the Atlantic eastward to the Pacific and along a belt that stretches across northern Africa into Central Asia and south to the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent.

What parts of the world were Islamic?

The main regions of the world with a predominantly Islamic population are located in Central Asia, the entire Middle East and Western Asia (except Armenia and Israel), all of North Africa, and many countries in West Africa, South Asia, and Maritime Southeast Asia.

What countries were in the Islamic empire?

Middle East and North Africa - Arab Dynasties
  • Mesopotamia and Levant (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine)
  • Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf.
  • North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya)
  • Iran.
  • Anatolia (Turkey)
  • Azerbaijan.
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