Islam’s rapid conquests seemed miraculous even to Muslim observers themselves

Evidence

Islam’s meteoric rise indeed seemed miraculous: a handful of warriors from the desert subduing the richest and most populous parts of the world’s most powerful empires. Surely God favored Islam and wished new subjects to convert. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 270

Categorization

• XREF: The perceived-miraculous-explanation for conquests recurs on both sides of the Islam-West divide and connects to broader vault themes about divine-favor arguments.