Re: Good/Beneficient (was: More Nyenya'a)

> This leads to a weird conlang question with a concultural twist.  Suppose
> Muhammad had wound up converting the Jews instead of/in addition to
> the Arabs and surrounding peoples.  What would the Hebrew words for
> "Islam" and "Muslim" have been, based on "shalom"?  And of course,
> this spawns a whole new conuniverse!
>
> (Hey, no weirder than the idea of M. becoming a Christian monk,
> writing a famous hymn with the refrain "There is no God but God,
> and Jesus Christ is his Son", being evacuated from Syria during
> a Sassanid Persian invasion, dying as Archbishop of Byzantine
> Spain, and eventually being canonized as St. Mouamet, patron of
> changes!)
Someone claimed that the Jews were trying to convert the arabs to judaism
when Muhammed began his carrieer.
The text continued "but since the local jews didn't considered Muhammed to
be of any political importance, they didn't focus on trying to converting
him".
(this sounds a bit wierd though - judaism isn't exactly known for trying to
spread the faith. Are there judaistic sects that try to convert
non-judaists? I assume no one is counting islam and christianity as
judaistic sects.)
The possible conculture of a jewish Arabia and a christian Europe would be
interesting.