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Hello and welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnhann and me, William Durhamport.

And we are joined again. I'm very happy to say by the Professor of Late Antique, medieval and Byzantine Studies at the University of Cambridge, Peter Saris. Welcome Peter.

In the last episode,

we talked about Christianity and the impact of Christianity and these sort of wild monks who really changed the fabric of what Gaza looks like, sort of this boom time with monasteries and churches

springing up in the Holy Land. In this episode, we're going to talk about the great conquests of Islam,

because William left us on a cliffhanger at the last episode in the 7th century,

and how ideas about this period have, by modern study, been completely overturned in some way.

So, I mean, let's start at the very,

very basic level. We're talking about a rapid expansion of Islam at this time. We're talking

sort of 630s, aren't we? So just tell us what's going on and what is happening here.

Over the course of the 6th and early 7th centuries, cultural, economic, military, religious

conditions in the Arabian Peninsula had been revolutionised and transformed by the growing

involvement in Arabia of the two great powers of the Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanian Persia.

Partly as a result of this growing superpower

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