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Islam rose at a time when Byzantium and Persia were at their weakest. Was this mere coincidence or were the destructive wars of Byzantine and Persia indirectly helping in the Rise of Islam or the unity of the Arabs?

by /u/conbutt in /r/AskHistorians

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