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Islam was conveyed to the world by Muhammed. He claimed to be the last prophet of Allah, a name Arabs, Christians and Jews of Arabia used for the God of the Old Testament. Muhammed conveyed the Koran, which was a holy book that existed eternally in heaven but was revealed to him by an angel of Allah, Gabriel. Islam claims to exist peacefully with Judaism and Christianity, claiming that Jews and Christians are "people of the book", and while certain passages in the Koran support this, others say that Jews and Christians have deviated from the righteous pathby either misinterpreting their books or editing parts of them. Islam denies that God ever had a son or became human, saying that Jesus was a prophetand one of the most devoted, highly esteemed five prophets, as well as denying that He has ever died on a cross or otherwise, saying he, Jesus, ascended to heaven. Whereas biblical Christianity spread under heavy persecution in the Roman empire, Islam spread primarily by merchants to the far east and was welcomed by the Eastern Mediterranean and North African people as they suffered under the tyranny of the then-ruling Roman Empire.