18 Facts About Pre-Islamic Arabia

Pre-Islamic Arabia refers to the Arabian Peninsula before the emergence of Islam in 610 CE.

Additionally, from the second half of the second millennium BCE, Southern Pre-Islamic Arabia was the home to a number of kingdoms such as the Sabaeans, Minaeans, and Eastern Pre-Islamic Arabia was inhabited by Semitic speakers who presumably migrated from the southwest, such as the so-called Samad population.

From 106 CE to 630 CE northwestern Pre-Islamic Arabia was under the control of the Roman Empire, which renamed it Pre-Islamic Arabia Petraea.

Pre-Islamic religions in Arabia included Arabian indigenous polytheistic beliefs, ancient Semitic religions, various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Manichaeism, and Zoroastrianism.

The most recent detailed study of pre-Islamic Arabia is Arabs and Empires Before Islam, published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

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Sedentary people of pre-Islamic Eastern Arabia were mainly Aramaic, Arabic and to some degree Persian speakers while Syriac functioned as a liturgical language.

In pre-Islamic times, the population of Eastern Arabia consisted of Christianized Arabs, Aramean Christians, Persian-speaking Zoroastrians and Jewish agriculturalists.

The sedentary dialects of Eastern Pre-Islamic Arabia, including Bahrani Arabic, were influenced by Akkadian, Aramaic and Syriac languages.

Pre-Islamic Arabia appointed his son Shapur I as governor of Eastern Arabia.

Himyarites rebelled against Qataban and eventually united Southwestern Pre-Islamic Arabia, controlling the Red Sea as well as the coasts of the Gulf of Aden.

Southern Pre-Islamic Arabia became a Persian dominion under a Yemenite vassal and thus came within the sphere of influence of the Sassanid Empire.

Achaemenid Pre-Islamic Arabia corresponded to the lands between Nile Delta and Mesopotamia, later known to Romans as Pre-Islamic Arabia Petraea.

Roman province of Pre-Islamic Arabia Petraea was created at the beginning of the 2nd century by emperor Trajan.

Desert frontier of Pre-Islamic Arabia Petraea was called by the Romans the Limes Arabicus.

Pre-Islamic Arabia refers to the people in Greek as Khindynoi, and mentions that they and the tribe of Maadynoi were the two most important tribes in the area in terms of territory and number.

Pre-Islamic Arabia calls the king of Kindah Kaisos, the nephew of Aretha .

Pre-Islamic Arabia Yemen produced stylized alabaster heads of great aesthetic and historic charm.

Early 7th century in Pre-Islamic Arabia began with the longest and most destructive period of the Byzantine–Sassanid Wars.