Compared with Christianity as a new religion Islam took off much more quickly and spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and beyond. Identify the factors that may help explain Islams dramatic expansion.

Question: Compared with Christianity as a new religion Islam took off much more quickly and spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and beyond. Identify the factors that may help explain Islams dramatic expansion. (Take your discussion up to approximately the end of the Umayyad period at 800CE).