Byzantine Egypt

The 7th century Arab invasion is somehow halted, and Egypt remains Byzantine. Will the Arabs re-invade at a later date, or do the native Egyptians eventually revolt against Byzantine rule?
 
The 7th century Arab invasion is somehow halted, and Egypt remains Byzantine. Will the Arabs re-invade at a later date, or do the native Egyptians eventually revolt against Byzantine rule?

Or maybe Egypt becomes independent from the Byzantine Empire some time before the Arab invasion and forms its own empire. How would that influence things? As far as I understand different views on religion, that is, different views on Christianity, undermined the authority of the Byzantine emperor. But what if Egypt became independent? It would be more ideologically unified than as a part of the Byzantine Empire and would also be a rich empire.
 
I mean, I've already made a thread that would include this question, but sure, I'll bite.

Religious minorities were getting persecuted by the Romans up until the Arab invasions. Assuming many of the copts and nestorians still go along with the arabs but are defeated, it could get better or worse for them.

On the one, hand the Romans would want to reconcile, and eventually they would have to start treating them better with a hostile Arab world next to them. But on the other hand, many of them DID just revolt. The most likely outcome is many are executed/moved around, and over the decades the Romans start treating them better.

Now as for the Arabs reinvading, of course they might. Assuming they managed to still take much of Persia, they will have a huge resource base to work with. I could see the region falling, or even changing hands multiple times in the next couple of centuries.
 
Many thoughts here. I did my undergrad dissertation on late Roman Egypt and I strongly disagree with the other posters in the thread. When I have proper internet I'll explain why.
 
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