[EvgeniyZh]

> the Muslim world, one beset with colonial extraction for centuries

Surely you mean on the side of extractors? The Ottoman Empire practiced mass movement of people (sürgün), basically settler colonialism; earlier Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates are among the largest empires in history, and their population was mass converted to Islam.

[viccis]

The Ottoman Empire did indeed subject a large portion of the Muslim world to colonial extraction.