Which of the following best describes why Muslim diasporas led to the formation of an Islamic world system? Islamic economic expansion followed military conquest and the garrisons left behind by Islamic armies. Islamic economic expansion was often centered on trade, and many Muslim communities sprung up in port cities across the Indian Ocean. Islamic economic expansion relied on the Portuguese trading ports in East Africa and Southeast Asia to build their trade networks.
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