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How did Islam spread so quickly and successfully?
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- Anonymous6 years ago
It advanced into a power vacumn literally. The Byzantine and Safavid Empires had been fighting each other for 20 years and both were exhausted and flat broke. Heraclius, the Byzanitine Emperor was old and tired from constant war through most of his life. The last thing he wanted was another war. The Safavid Empire was sufftering from a huge epidemic of plague at the time that denuded whole regions of people.
Source(s): Ochsenwald/Fisher "The Middle East - A History" - Anonymous6 years ago
The Islamic state expanded very rapidly after the death of Muhammad through remarkable successes of military conquests of non- Islamics.