Axum had protected Muslims from persecution
Christianity
It was a process, rather than an event. It was the spread of Christianity
Pretty much every thing other than religion...
They both focused on religion
Axum had protected Muslims from persecution
religion
They are the same thing. Muslims are the followers of the religion of Islam.
religion
The Byzantine Empire.
Buddhism, Jainism
Islamic
Religion
He spread Greek culture such as the Greek language and religion.
Christianity
Islam as a religion expanded as the Islamic Empires expanded through conquest and where Islamic merchants met with receptive cultures outside of the Islamic Empires.
Numerous empires such as the various Caliphates (Umayyad, Abbassid, Buyid, Idrissid, Fatimid, Samanid, Safavid, etc.) and modern States around the world have Islam as their major religion. These disparate places and empires are usually called "Islamic Civilization".