Islam 1: Muhammad, the first Caliphate, and the core teachings
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Various Religions in Arabia, Egypt, and Ethiopia
There were small, scattered jewish clans located in various towns and small cities around arabia. Some people judaized, meaning they took on the customs and practices of jews; some became accepted as jews. There also were scattered numbers of christians in arabia as well. The menophasite christianity that you found in egypt at this time, the ethiopian orthodox christianity,. these would spread through trade and travel and gain converts and adherents. And there was a an idea, first put forward by jews, that some arabs took up, which was that arabs, like jews, were also descended from abraham.
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