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The Rise of the Umayats
There's an even higher risk than usual that my historical contexts and descriptions sometimes miss the mark. But if this episode inspires some of you to do your own taking around, then perhaps i might be forgiven for any mistakes. And the following. The prophet mohammed died in six 32 a d upon his death, the new faith of islam would spread out from the arabian peninsula and conquer all before it at breakneck speed. A century later, islam was a state religion in the now extinct sisanian persian empire as well as huge parts of what had belonged to the byzantine empire. There had been serious schisms, or fitnes along the way, owing