Thie will be controversial and a lot of this blog will be my own opinion and not that I don’t feel it is valid opinion,just that this will not be a by the books history of Islam.Also I have nothing against Muslims as people I feel we must speak against Islam for a pro Yeshua and Biblical persepective especially with world events as they are.
The first point I’d like to make is that Islam in no way denies that Islam was not new to the late 6th early 7th centuries.Islam itself asserts Islam was a revival of the Abrahamic or Ibrahimic worship and not totally new.Muhammad was then trying to revive the worship of the Biblical God of Abraham or in Arabic Ibrahim but asserting Yishmael not Yitzchak (Isaac) was the true patriach.But was Islam truely Mono-theistic , the symbol of Islam is the crescent moon,The crescent moon was a pagan symbol of the pagan moon god “Syn” or also “Suen” in Akkadian.So this staple symbol of the Islamic faith is based on Mesopotamian pagan god not the Biblical Godhead.
Sin (/ˈsiːn/) or Suen (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂗𒍪, dEN.ZU[1]) also known as Nanna (Sumerian: 𒀭𒋀𒆠 DŠEŠ.KI, DNANNA[2]) was the Mesopotamian god representing the moon. While these two names originate in two different languages, respectively Akkadian and Sumerian, they were already used interchangeably to refer to one deity in the Early Dynastic period.(wikipedia)
Polytheism in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Before the rise of Islam, most Bedouin tribes practiced polytheism, most often in the form of animism. Animists believe that non-human entities (animals, plants, and inanimate objects or phenomena) possess a spiritual essence. Totemism and idolatry, or worship of totems or idols representing natural phenomena, were also common religious practices in the pre-Islamic world. Idols were housed in the Kaaba, an ancient sanctuary in the city of Mecca. The site housed about 360 idols and attracted worshippers from all over Arabia. According to the holy Muslim text the Quran, Ibrahim, together with his son Ishmael, raised the foundations of a house and began work on the Kaaba around 2130 BCE.
The chief god in pre-Islamic Arabia was Hubal, the Syrian god of the moon. The three daughters of Hubal were the chief goddesses of Meccan Arabian mythology: Allāt, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt. Allāt was the goddess associated with the underworld. Al-‘Uzzá, “The Mightiest One” or “The Strong,” was a fertility goddess, and she was called upon for protection and victory before war. Manāt was the goddess of fate; the Book of Idols describes her as the most ancient of all these idols. The Book of Idols describes gods and rites of Arabian religion, but criticizes the idolatry of pre-Islamic religion.(You notice the Syrian Moon god ,likely syn linked with the crescent moon symbol)
Astrology and divination
The ancient Arabs that inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before the advent of Islam used to profess a widespread belief in fatalism (ḳadar) alongside a fearful consideration for the sky and the stars, which they held to be ultimately responsible for every phenomena that occurs on Earth and for the destiny of humankind.[67] Accordingly, they shaped their entire lives in accordance with their interpretations of astral configurations and phenomena
Offerings and ritual sacrifice
The most common offerings were animals, crops, food, liquids, inscribed metal plaques or stone tablets, aromatics, edifices and manufactured objects.[75] Camel-herding Arabs would devote some of their beasts to certain deities. The beasts would have their ears slit and would be left to pasture without a herdsman, allowing them to die a natural death.[75]
Pre-Islamic Arabians, especially pastoralist tribes, sacrificed animals as an offering to a deity.[74] This type of offering was common and involved domestic animals such as camels, sheep and cattle, while game animals and poultry were rarely or never mentioned. Sacrifice rites were not tied to a particular location though they were usually practiced in sacred places.[74] Sacrifice rites could be performed by the devotee, though according to Hoyland, women were probably not allowed.[76] The victim’s blood, according to pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and certain South Arabian inscriptions, was also ‘poured out’ on the altar stone, thus forming a bond between the human and the deity.[76] According to Muslim sources, most sacrifices were concluded with communal feasts.
Other practices (Especially concerning women)
In the Hejaz, menstruating women were not allowed to be near the cult images.[55] The area where Isaf and Na’ila‘s images stood was considered out-of-bounds for menstruating women.[55] This was reportedly the same with Manaf.[77] According to the Book of Idols, this rule applied to all the “idols”.[55] This was also the case in South Arabia, as attested in a South Arabian inscription from al-Jawf.[55]
Sexual intercourse in temples was prohibited, as attested in two South Arabian inscriptions.[55] One legend concerning Isaf and Na’ila, when two lovers made love in the Kaaba and were petrified, joining the idols in the Kaaba, echoes this prohibition.
There you have a good overview of pagan pre Islamic Arabia(and the pagan pre Islamic part assumes Islam is not pagan anyways, which I think it is in reality)
What motivated the Islamic revolution when it happened in the late 6th early 7th century?
Now the comes in the early fourth century the rise of Christianity particularly in Yemen which was much larger than modern Yemen,Yemen meaning “south” was the southern part of Arabia and it’s empire included parts of modern Eritrea and Somalia.
Christianity and Arabia
“After Constantine conquered Byzantium in 324 CE, Christianity spread to Arabia. The principal tribes that embraced Christianity were the Himyar, Ghassan, Rabi’a, Tagh’ab, Bahra, and Tunukh, parts of the Tay and Khud’a, the inhabitants of Najran, and the Arabs of Hira. Traditionally, both Jews and Christians believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe. Both religions reject the view that God is entirely transcendent, and thus separate from the world, as the pre-Christian Greek Unknown God. Both religions also reject atheism on one hand and polytheism on the other.
The main areas of Christian influence in Arabia were on the northeastern and northwestern borders and in what was to become Yemen in the south. The northwest was under the influence of Christian missionary activity from the Roman Empire, where the Ghassanids, residents of a client kingdom of the Romans, were converted to Christianity. In the south, particularly at Najran, a center of Christianity developed as a result of the influence of the Christian kingdom of Axum based on the other side of the Red Sea in Ethiopia. Both the Ghassanids and the Christians in the south adopted Monophysitism. The spread of Christianity was halted in 622 CE by the rise of Islam, though the city of Mecca provided a central location for an intermingling of the two cultures. For example, in addition to the animistic idols, the pre-Islamic Kaaba housed statues of Jesus and his holy mother, Mary.”
This is my theory ok ,just my theory.
Christianity began to proliferate in the Arabian peninsula and especially Yemen in the south ,Yemen means south.Earlier with Greek conquests cultures were culture was lost.The way the the Berbers of North African had been Hellenized by the Greeks and Romans.
The Arabs in northern Arabia feared loosing the traditional Arabian and Bedouin customs to Greek ones after Christianity began to spread in southern Arabia.I believe it started before Muhammad but Muhammad was a fierce warlord and really got the ball rolling.They created a (so called) Ibrahimic monotheistic religion that also incorporated traditional Arabic pagan theology and mythology and folklore as a means of appeasing monotheism and conserving traditional Arabic customs.
Did Muhammad actually write the Quran? I doubt it unless you believe it really was given to Muhammad in a dream by the Angel Gabriel because Muhammad was a known illiterate.Some compelling scholars say that although the folktales and mythology was not at all new but that the Quran(meaning “to recite”) was formally codified by Arabic scribes in Petra Jordan about 100 years after Muhammad’s death.But remember the oral tradition that became the written Quran goes back to ancient times in folk tales and myths like any other culture but it’s doubtful the illiterate Muhammad penned the Quran.
That will conclude ,so thank you and God Bless and please put any questions in the comments.
Truth in Mikra 
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