Why were Muslim armies so successful?

Answer 1

Answer A

Because they were well disciplined and expertly commanded. Also the two empires in the north were reallyyy tired (Byzantine and Sassanid) from fighting each other so they didn't have the strength to defend against invaders. In addition, simplicity and uncomplicated nature of Islam was another reason they were successful. Opps that was three reasons... Oh well... I'm 2 lazy to delete the rest sooo I'll just leave it there for u... Hope this helps! ^-^

Answer B

They were not fighting for personal prestige or power or benefit but for defending their religion and/or for freeing the will of others to choose the faith to believe in.

Answer 2

During the Rise of Islam period (620s-750), there are several key political and regional reasons why Islam was capable of spreading as quickly and as successfully as it did. The Umayyad Caliphate extended throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, and the western part of South Asia. There were also other Islamic Empires, usually lead by Turks or Turkic peoples that continued to have success in battles (Seljuks, Ottomans, Mamluks, Timurids, Mughals, Safavids, etc.) until the 1700s. These successes were driven primarily from the war tactics employed by Muslims against their opponents and the general exhaustion of their opponents from previous decades of war.

However, there were numerous failures for Islam in battles, such as the Invasion of the Mongols who not only burnt several Persian cities to the ground, sacked the Abbassid capital of Baghdad, and murdered many millions of civilians. At that point, the Muslim armies failed to put up any serious resistance (with the possible exceptions of the Hashashin Ismailis in Iran for a few years and the Mamluks at Ain-Jalut). When the Khedivites and Mamluks tried to resist European colonial armies or the when the Ottoman forces that fought in World War I, all three of those Muslim armies did pitifully in battle. (The War with the Khedivites was a slaughter - the Europeans massacred their opponents.