ABSTRACT
The phenomenon of the Arab conquest really is most disconcerting until the rise of the Prophet, the Arabs constituted a people, whose historical role, to say the least, had been one of the most mediocre, and its influence on the civilisation of the rest of humanity negligible. The Arab conquest is unthinkable without the birth of the Prophet and without the balance of forces then prevailing in the two Empires, as it existed at that moment. The Arab conquests did not have a religious character, since the victors did not want to convert the vanquished”, has no merit, the postulate which it implies being belied by history: there is no reason to suppose that religious incentive did not play a very important role. As a result of this conquest, a Muslim civilisation came into being having in many respects a very pronounced Arab character.
