AHC: No Islam, Christian Arabia

KaiserCorax

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I am sure simply not having Mohammed born is an easy way to prevent Islam, but how can we get an Orthodox Christian (or other) Arabia?
 
Just have the Ghassanids and Lakhmids be financed by their respective lords to carve up Arabia. The Persians already controlled the Persian Gulf and Yemen.
 
Prior to the advent of Islam a large chunk of Arabia was Christian, in fact at the time it was split primarily between Christianity and Judaism (which could be found as far as what's now Yemen) with a smaller minority following the native pre-Abrahamic religions.
 
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Prior to the advent of Islam a large chunk of Arabia was Christian, in fact at the time it was split primarily between Christianity and Judaism (which could be found as far as what's now Yemen) with a smaller minority following native the pre-Abrahamic religions.

Well, granted the old Jewish Yemenite power was driven out by the combination of the Byzantines and Aksumites dispersing many of the Jewish tribes, (of which three would settle in Medina) Judaic Arabs have a long history in Arabia. Just prior to the Sassanid-Byzantine War the two main Arab powers were the Lakhmids who followed the Church of the East focused on the southern reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates and across the 'Bahrain Coast' and there were the Ghassanids a miasphyite group focused in Jordan and north-western Arabia, the former was a Sassanid puppet and the latter was a Roman puppet. Unfortunately Khosrau II destroyed the Lakhmids early in his reign, this coupled with a ecological collapse due to a dam in Arabia Felix largely contributed to a power vacuum that the First Caliphate would go on to exploit.
 
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