While the 40% figure might be too high given that the Balochi language is barely present nowadays, I still think that it might have played a role in making Sindh more Muslim, I wonder when exactly the region became majority Muslim.
Is the decline of polytheism inevitable?
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The Himyarite Elite converted to Judaism by the fourth century , a part of the populace probably followed . the Aksumites conquered them , followed by the Sassanids and later the Rashiduns . Most of them converted to Islam but a part of them sticked to Judaism and didn’t marry outside of their community.
Nothing in history is really “inevitable”. That is the very reason this website exists in the first place.
The mere fact that Constantine himself mainly converted to Christianity in order to give the empire a single stable religious focus was probably a political decision just as much as one borne out of faith: he could see what had happened very recently during the persecutions of Diocletian: it only strengthened the resolve of Christians who became more fervent and just created more religious unrest. By 324 it had become the empire's majority religion partly as a result of the very persecutions designed to eradicate it. If Diocletian and Galentius had not pursued their purge with such fervour it might have been less of a rallying cry for Christians. Then there was the case of Julian the Apostate: the only reason, IMO, that he had little to no success in restoring more traditional religion is that his reign was so short. Given twenty or thirty years instead of two he may have become a major champion of the older ways and in some respects slowed or reversed the religious changes taking place.
Or even more simply? Nip Gentile Christianity in the bud entirely by, for example, Paul of Tarsus not existing or not converting.
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