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Not well read on this topic, but I do know that the popular account for why the Arab conquest was so successful is because both the Roman and Persian states were exhausted by decades of war and ripe for capitulation.

Can only speculate on your other questions, but Christians have definitely not vanished from the Middle East. Not then and not now.