<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Bhutan </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> 0.2% </Td> </Tr> <P> Islam in South Asia has existed since the beginning of Islamic history . There are approximately 600 million South Asian Muslims, informally known as Desi Muslims, forming 31.4% of South Asia's population . In addition, about 30.6% of all Muslims live in South Asia, which is the largest regional population of Muslims in the world . </P> <P> Islam first came to the western coast of India when Arab traders as early as the 7th century AD came to coastal Malabar and Konkan - Gujarat . Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kerala is thought to be the first mosque in India, built in 629 AD by Malik ibn Dinar . Following an expedition by the governor of Bahrain to Bharuch in the 7th century AD, immigrant Arab and Persian trading communities from South Arabia and the Persian Gulf began settling in coastal Gujarat . After the Islamic conquest of Persia was completed, the Muslim Arabs then began to move towards the lands east of Persia and in 652 captured Herat . </P> <P> In 712 CE, a young Arab general Muhammad bin Qasim conquered most of the Indus region for the Umayyad empire, to be made the "As - Sindh" province with its capital at Al - Mansurah, 72 km (45 mi) north of modern Hyderabad in Sindh . Sindh became the easternmost province of the Umayyad Caliphate . But due to the instability of the empire and the defeat in various wars with north Indian and south Indian rulers including the Caliphate campaigns in India, where the Hindu rulers like the south Indian Emperor Vikramaditya II of the Chalukya dynasty and Nagabhata of the Pratihara Dynasty defeated the Umayyad Arabs, they were contained to Sindh and southern Punjab . There was gradual conversion to Islam in the south, especially amongst the native Hindu and Buddhist majority, but in areas north of Multan, Hindus and Buddhists remained numerous . By the end of the 10th century CE, the region was ruled by several Hindu Shahi kings who would be subdued by the Ghaznavids . </P>

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