Active from the 5th to the 7th centuries. 400s to 600s. Hmmmmmmmmm. Wonder what happened in the 600s to render it inactive? Probably the arrival of a bunch of Amish or some other religion of peace that peacefully persuaded the Christians to join a new religion. Peacefully.
the peaceful prophet of the religion of pieces.
The actual irony is that the Byzantine suppression of the Monophysite Christians caused their defection to Mohammed.
They’d repulsed the eastern tribes and later the Muslims and protected the trade routes of the Levant which the Mohammedans so desperately wanted to loot. The buffer they formed protected the Christian west.
If only the Byzantines had shown a little tolerance for that belief or at least a little political prudence Islam would have remained a tribal religion delimited to Saudi Arabia. Instead Constantinople fell to treachery before a Muslim army and Anatolia went the way of Islam.