Qne3: What is the impact of Muslims on "Buildings (architecture) and
Literature in South Asia?
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n some areas of Southeast Asia where Islam later would be adopted, elaborate carvings of stories from the lives of the Buddha or the gods and heroes of the Ramayana and Mahabharata epics adorned the temple walls from the earlier Hindu-Buddhist period. The first mosques that date from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries looked similar to the Hindu temples that still can be found today on the island of Bali, where Hinduism has remained the dominant religion. As historian Jean Taylor has noted, mosques were a meeting place for communities that identified themselves as Islamic. The mosques served as places where Muslim men gathered to pray together on Fridays; they also served as boarding houses for traveling students, scholars, and traders. The mosques identified space as Islamic space by organizing it according to the ideas of the Qur’an and hadith. People and ideas passed through these Islamic spaces, leaving their imprint on the landscape. Since Islam discourages the depiction of the human body, many mosques are decorated with geometric designs and letters from Arabic or an Arabic derived script. To foster communities of believers, all mosques have a place for washing hands and feet before praying and a clear orientation toward the holy city of Mecca. In Malay languages, direction toward Mecca is called the kiblat, from the Arabic word for the same thing. This is the direction toward which Muslims should turn to pray.
In addition to works in Arabic, Muslims also fostered a thousand-year tradition of classical Persian poetry, ranging from short quatrains to long epics. With the spread of Islam to other regions, there has been a corresponding growth in literature in other languages, ranging from Swahili to Malay.