Mustafa Olomi’s Reviews > Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam > Status Update

Expansion of Islam happened over areas w deep religious traditions skilled in polemics and a population advantage. Not usually conquered, but included in a believers movement & different political economic order. Evidence of Christins in early Muslim raiding groups, churches continued to be built, cleric letters, and early coins just saying “there is no God but God” while leaving Muhammad part out of the creed.