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Arabs conquered much of the current “Arab world” in the 7th century but the majority remained Christian or Jewish until the 12th century.

Egypt was majority Christian until the 12th century

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Arabs conquered much of the current “Arab world” in the 7th century but the majority remained Christian or Jewish until the 12th century.

The estimates in this source are quite a bit lower for the areas conquered in the Middle East.

After the Arab Muslim conquest of the Middle East and North Africa in the seventh century, Christianity slowly declined in those regions. By the tenth century Christians constituted some ten percent of the population of the Islamic Empire. Into this situation at the end of the eleventh century came the Crusades, which brought with them the Roman Catholic Church. Dominant in the regions of the East Mediterranean where the crusaders established short-lived states, the Roman Catholic Church remained as a minority after the last Crusaders left at the end of the thirteenth century. During the crusader period, in the thirteenth century one group of Eastern Christians, the Maronites, entered in its entirety into communion with Rome. The Maronite Church is the largest Christian group in Lebanon.