Islam
The prominent ones include the Delhi Sultanate
(12061526) and the Mughal empire (15261857). These empires helped in the spread of
Islam in South Asia. but by the mid18th century the British empire had ended the Mughal
dynasty.[89] In the 18th century the Wahhabi movement took hold in Saudi Arabia. Founded
by the preacher Ibn Abd alWahhab, Wahhabism is a fundamentalist ideology that condemns
practices like Sufism and the veneration of saints as unIslamic.
By the 17th and 18th centuries, despite attempts at modernization, the Ottoman empire had
begun to feel threatened by European economic and military advantages. In the 19th
century, the rise of nationalism resulted in Greece declaring and winning independence in
1829, with several Balkan states following suit after the Ottomans suffered defeat in the
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