User blog comment:LurkerLordB/Religion in a world without Christianity/@comment-1593341-20120424094112/@comment-1630894-20120430040949

As I have demonstrated in one of my other comments, Judaism would have not had anywhere near the amount of influence in the Arabian peninsula that it had in OTL without Christianity. Furthermore, Hanif counts as paganism as it branched out from it. However, it seems unlikely that the pagans who started Hanif were not influenced heavily by Christianity and Judaism, two religions with many followers in the Arabian peninsula at the time of Muhammed (yet, the Jewish ones would have been much less numerous without Christianity).