Note 159 — Chapter XII · THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO.
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As might be anticipated from a consideration of these facts, there has been of recent years a very great awakening of missionary activity in the Malay Archipelago, and the returned pilgrims, whether as merchants or religious teachers, become preachers of Islam wherever they come in contact with a heathen population. The religious orders moreover have extended their organisation to the Malay Archipelago,159 even the youngest of them—the Sanūsiyyah—finding adherents in the most distant islands,160 one of the signs of its influence being the adoption of the name Sanūsī by many Malays, when in Mecca they change their native for Arabic names.161