Comparison of African Empires in Islam

Ever since Islam bloomed from the deserts of Arabia, it had received massive amounts of scrutiny in regards to its teachings, and especially its spread throughout the world. Even more than fourteen hundred years later, the religion of Islam continues to receive this scrutiny by those who oppose it. One of the chief arguments posed by those who oppose the Islamic faith is that Islam was “spread by the sword in Africa.” According to African history, this is very far from the truth.
Almost every religion that has ever existed has, or has had, its agents who would travel to far away places and spread the teachings and philosophies of that particular religion. Islam is no different in this substance. But the way the Islamic religion had spread throughout Africa was not accomplished through missionaries or through means of religious leaders, rather it was the business matters that led the way for the religion to transform the faiths of millions upon millions of people on the contin...