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I know it seems a bit far fetched, but hell, it ain't called a challenge for nothing...

Related to my other thread on a longer lived Muhammad and a clear succession, but not necessarily dependent upon your reading of that thread:

Your challenge is to have the ruler of the Byzantine Eastern Roman Empire agree to or reach out the Arabs for an Arab-Byzantine Alliance against the Sassanids rather than go to war with the Arabs as well.

My thinking was that the ERE would offer territorial possessions in the Levant, Egypt, and southern Persia as incentive which would satisfy the Arabs for a time, while the ERE simply uses the newly strong Muslim Arabs to completely defeat the Sassanids and take over nearly all of the formerly Persian territory.... But it's your challenge...

Make the Arabs and the Byzantines at least nominally tenuous allies for a while against the Sassanids, have the alliance succeed, and then please describe the inevitable effects on history...

Thank you very much in advance!
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