Islam in Malaysia He converted to Islam after marrying a princess from Pasai, of present-day Indonesia. The religion was adopted peacefully by the coastal trading ports people of Malaysia and Indonesia, absorbing rather than conquering existing beliefs. By the 15th and 16th centuries it was the majority faith of the Malay people. Currently, Islam is the state religion, specifically Shafi'ite school Sunnism. Some Islamic terms, such as the word Allah, are forbidden to non-Muslims both orally and in writing, which has created a controversy . In October 2013, the Malaysian Court of Appeal upheld the government's ban on the use of the word
Al-Haram, Jaffa shrine for al-Hasan ibn 'Ali (d. A.D. 1081), who was a descendant of the second Muslim Caliph 'Umar ibn al-Khattab. According to Morris, the villagers were evacuated on 3 February 1948 out of fear of Jewish attack, after Haganah or Irgun attacks on nearby villages. The only trace of the former village is the "Sidna Ali shrine" and the cemetery which surrounds it. The cemetery has been developed as a parking lot for Israeli tourists. Al-Haram, Jaffa Al-Haram ("El Haram ʿAly Ibn ʿAleim", also "Sayyiduna Ali" or "Sidna Ali" "sanctuary of ʿAli [Ibn ʿAleim]"), was a Palestinian Arab village in