What is Muslim conquests?
{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Arab conquests | place = Various places including: *[[Middle East]] *[[North Africa]] *[[Caucasus]] *[[Europe]] *[[Central Asia]] *[[South Asia]] | partof = the [[history of Islam]] | date = 633-751 | territory = Initial expansion of the [[Caliphate|Caliphates]] throughout world | result = Territorial gain of [[Umayyad Caliphate]] and transformation to [[Abbasid Caliphate]] | combatant1 = [[Muhammad in Medina|Islamic Medina]] (622-632)<br>[[Rashidun Caliphate]] (632-661)<br>{{Flagicon image|Umayyad_Flag.svg}} [[Umayyad Caliphate]] (661-760)<br>[[Emirate of Tbilisi]] (736-1122)<br>{{Flagicon image|Rectangular_green_flag.svg}} [[Emirate of Córdoba]] (750-929)<br>[[Aghlabids]] (800-909)<br>[[Emirate of Crete]] (824-961) | combatant2 = {{Flagicon image|Simple_Labarum.svg}} [[Byzantine Empire]]<br>{{Flagicon image|New_Ghassanid_Banner.png}} [[Ghassanids]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Tanukh_flag.svg}} [[Tanukhids]]<br>[[Egyptians]]<br>[[Nubians]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Derafsh_Kaviani_flag_of_the_late_Sassanid_Empire.svg}} [[Sasanian Empire]]<br>[[Kingdom of Altava]]<br>[[Kingdom of the Aurès]]<br>[[Kabyle people|Kabyles]]<br>[[Kingdom of Ouarsenis]]<br>[[Kingdom of Hodna]]<br>{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Republic_of_Venice_(1659-1675).svg}} [[Republic of Venice]] }} The '''Arab conquests''' (632–732), ({{lang-ar|فتح}}, '''Fatah''', literally ''opening'',) also referred to '''as the''' '''Islamic conquests''' or '''Early muslim conquests''',<ref>Martin Sicker (2000), ''The Islamic World in Ascendancy: From the Arab Conquests to the Siege of ''Vienna'', '' Praeger.</ref> began after the death of the [[Islam]]ic [[prophet]] [[Muhammad]]. He established a new unified political polity in the [[Arabia]]n [[peninsula]] which under the following [[Rashidun Empire|Rashidun]] and [[Umayyad Empire|Umayyad]] [[Caliphate]]s saw a century of rapid expansion of [[Arab]] power well beyond the Arabian peninsula in the form of a vast [[Muslim]] Arab Empire with an area of influen