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What reaction did Christian, Jewish or other religious leadership have to the rise of Islam, especially as the Muslims started making territorial gains?

by uppity_chucklehead

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Here are a couple of earlier answers that might interest you:

When did Byzantines stop thinking of Islam as a heresy, and start thinking of it as a religion? - by the ever-excellent /u/shlin28
When did the West start branding the Quran as more violent than the Bible? - by me