Long before the invention of Islam, the earliest record of someone baking this type of bread comes from 4,000 years ago, when it describes how Abraham prepared a quickly-baked bread called pat for his guests. The region is home to Christians, Jews, and Muslims, and bread is common to all of them. Actually, for all three religions, bread is considered to be holy, a gift from God. — And I say this as an atheist.
After three angels disguised as men appeared to Abraham, Abraham jumped up and ordered his servants to bring water so his guests could wash, then told his entire household to prepare a feast. Before the meal was ready, Abraham told his guests “I will fetch a morsel of bread (pat in Hebrew) so that you may sustain yourselves….” first (Genesis 18:5). Given that Abraham later asks his wife Sarah to prepare more time-consuming pastries, it seems that the pat he whipped up for his guests in minutes resembled modern-day pita.