https://didacticmind.com/2020/09/domain-query-the-missing-arab-armies.html Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:16:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://didacticmind.com/2020/09/domain-query-the-missing-arab-armies.html#comment-4499 Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:28:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=5814#comment-4499 Thanks for the follow up! I always thought it odd that the Arabs had no real military exploits prior to the expansion of Islam.

]]> https://didacticmind.com/2020/09/domain-query-the-missing-arab-armies.html#comment-4492 Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:34:23 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=5814#comment-4492 I thought the Arab conquests were always understood to have happened because there weren’t enough Roman forces left after the long Roman/Persian war. The Persians lost but almost all the land conquered by the Arabs had been Persian for 40 years and the Roman’s Anatolian lands had been occupied and reoccupying them took up the majority of their forces.

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