This project proposes that Islam emerged from the rivalry and occasional treaties in an Association (Quraysh) between the Judaizing-Ghassanids of the West and once Jew-friendly Gnostic/Monophysite-leaning Lakhmid-Taji-Mawali component in the East who together defeated the Sassanians in Mesopotamia. Both were regarded as Ishmaelites. On one side of the line, there is displacement theology but on the other side is the Taji acceptance of Jewish tradition and inheritance. At first the Jew-friendly Taji-Mawali component was dominant but they were soon overcome by the Judaizers who became Umayyads. By the time the power pendulum swung back to the Mawali corner they had already accepted Umayyad displacement theology and abandoned Taji attitude towards Jewish tradition. While the dominant group of Mawali and those from the Sassanids and Umayyad "Qara" who capitulated to them united to become the Abbasids, a much smaller remnant of Mawali continued underground with the Jew-friendly Taji mainly settling in the Balkans and Central Asia. At the same time a remnant of the Umayyad Judaizers survived in Spain. This page attempts to comprise a chronology of relevant events which took place during this power struggle resulting in the establishment of the Islamic religion.
