No, generally they followed a strategy like Russia or Austria-Hungary, and colonized large, multi-ethnic land empires contiguous with their traditional heartlands. Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, for example, all had large, contiguous land empires. However, in the instances where they did use sea routes, the Muslim states generally looked East rather than West. While they were uninvolved in the New World, several were, directly or indirectly, involved with the Indies. The most obvious case was the Ottoman Empire in Aceh (Aceh is on the island of Sumatra in what is now Indonesia), which should, in part, be placed in the larger Ottoman-Portuguese struggle in the Indian Ocean, 2. The case of Aceh was an interesting one, however, as the Acehnese wanted and requested Ottoman involvement in the region. The Ottomans organized several large expeditions in the Indian Ocean, but by the 17th century, they had mostly abandoned it to concentrate on consolidating power nearer to their heartland.