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It has been said that the Arabs wanted Rome, not Persia, and not both. However, Persia was in a state of civil war at that time, and after the conquest of Mesopotamia, Persian succesor states kept pushing back into Mesopotamia, which caused the Arabs to go further into Persia. But, what if the Persians decided not to attempt a reconquest of Mesopotamia? How far could the Arabs gone in the conquest of Rome? Rather than a Muslim versus Christian narrative, might we now see Muslim West vs Zoroastrian East?
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