 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Muhammad bin Qasim 672 CE pazera ramakore 17 akanga ari mukuru mukuru wechiMuslim wokutanga kupinda muIndia, achikwanisa kusvika Sindh. Muhafu yekutanga yezana ramakore rechisere CE, hondo dzakawanda dzakaitika pakati peUmayyad Caliphate nehumambo hweIndia; zvakakonzera mishandirapamwe yeUmayyad muIndiaakaongororwa uye akaiswa muSindh. Munenge muzana remakore rechi10, vaMuslim vokuCentral Asia vaitonga nyika dzavo, vaGaznavids, vaitungamirirwa naMahmud weGazni 971 - 1030 CE, ndivo vakanga vari vapambi vechipiri, vaiva noutsinye zvikuru, vaishandisa vatasvi vemabhiza vanomhanya-mhanya uye vaisimudza mauto makuru akabatanidzwa nemadzinza nechitendero, vakaramba vachingopamba mapani okuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweSouth Asia. Pakupedzisira, pasi pevaGhurid, uto revaMuslim rakapinda muNorth Indian Plains, izvo zvakatungamira mukumisikidzwa kweIslam Delhi Sultanate muna 1206 nevaranda veGhurid dynasty. Umambo hwacho hwaizodzora chikamu chikuru cheNorth India uye hwaizopinda muSouth India kakawanda. Zvisinei, kukakavadzana kwemukati kwakatungamirira kukuderera kwesultanate, uye sultanates itsva dzechiMuslim dzakadai seBengal Sultanate kumabvazuva uye Deccan sultanates munharaunda yekumaodzanyemba yakaparadzana. Muna 1339, Shah Mir akava mutongi wechiMuslim wokutanga weKashmir, achitanga Salatin-i-Kashmir kana kuti dzinza raShah Mir. 