Minimal Islamic Expansion

A reaction against the Maximum Islamic Expansion thread.

Oh yea and you cant just say islam just doesnt exists. Because then it cant be the Minimal ISLAMIC Expansion thread.

I say Medina.
 

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The back room of a stone-mason's shop in Mecca. The *Muslims (basically, Muhammad's closest group of friends), gather in this room every friday night, get stoned and discuss matters of faith and theology. The idea is toyed with of going out to preach to the masses, maybe travelling up to Medina, but nothing comes of it and instead they just stay in and eat some salted nuts.
 
Just the arabian peninsula, after a crushing defeat at the Battle of Yarmuk and another major setback in Persia. The rest of the near east is dominated by continuing ding-dong Roman-Persian warfare until the Mongols conquer Persia, and the Roman Empire eventually atomises into smaller states. (perhaps some kind of "Commonwealth of Rome"... hmm interesting) With these two empires collapsed MAYBE Islam can expand slowly, but the process would more closely resemble the OTL spread of Christianity than the historical Islamic explosion from Arabia. Any thoughts?
 
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