Pre-Islamic Arabia (Arabic: شبه الجزيرة العربية قبل الإسلام‎) is the Arabian Peninsula prior to the emergence of Islam in 610 CE. By <a href=”https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Like_tears_in_rain” class=”extiw” title=”fr:Utilisateur:Like tears in rain”>Like tears in rain</a> (Contact me for suggestions/corrections) – Own work (using different GFDL maps so it may be not exactly right)...

Pre-Islamic Arabia is the Arabian Peninsula prior to the emergence of Islam in 610 CE. Some of the settled communities developed into distinctive civilizations. There common language was Arabic, There was no political unity among them. The tribe was the principle form of social and political organization. Most at this time were pastoral nomads, living a rough and demanding existence based on the rearing of camels, sheep, and goats, the tribe,...

The Islamic tradition traces its origins to Hijaz, the northwest region of the Arabian peninsula, and specifically to the towns of Makkah and Yathrib, known as Medina (Madinat al-nabi, “the city of the prophet”) in Arabic. Arabia in the sixth century econpassed nearly the entire Arabian peninsula, as well as areas of Transjorden, southern Syria, and Mesopotamia.  Scattered throughout the peninsula were small commercial centers such...