There are a few reasons Islam spread across the Arabic/North African World. First, Document 7 states, “The passion to go to heaven in the next life may have been operative with some, but the desire for the comforts and luxuries of the civilized regions of the Fertile Crescent was just as strong in the case of many”(Document 7). This passage relates that Islam spread not only for belief in going to heaven, but riches and money were a great factor to conversion and expansion. The Abbasid Dynasty was a trade hub of the world, bringing a great deal of people concerned with money rather than the faith itself. Second, Document 1 states, “Believe or else pay tribute, obey the Lord and His apostle, and he will defend you”(Document 1). This texts