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As the title says, take whatever PoD you need after Muhammad's conception and birth that impede Islam from existing at all. This also butterflies away the unification of the Arabic polities. I'm focusing on Persia now, let's leave the Eastern Roman Empire for another debate.

How does Zoroaster's religion fares in this TL? I've read somewhere that it had a much lesser "expansionist" drive in comparison to Christianity, as the religion was wholly associated with the Persian/Iranic identity. Is it correct to say that the Sassanians had no purpose of forcing conversion upon the conquered peoples, such as the Syrians, Judeans, Egyptians, etc.? Could the religion expand more without "official" (state-sponsored) support, for example, among the Central Asian nomads that eventually embraced Islam, or Afghanistan, India, and so forth? What about Arabia itself, will they be more inclined towards Christianity due to the proximity with the Christian Ghassanids and the Lakhmids?
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