Yehuda D. Nevo (1932 – 12 February 1992) was a Middle Eastern archeologist living in Israel.
Nevo and Koren co-authored a work called Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State, which presents a theory of the origins and development of the Islamic state and religion.
According to them, the Arabs conquered the Near East with a mixture of pre-Islamic pagan and "Indeterminate Monotheistic" beliefs.
[1] The Arab's beliefs were modified in contact with the Jewish-Christian monotheism they encountered in the conquered land.
[2] Some of Nevo's work is also published in the book Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq.