The typical image of the early Arabs as we come to study in the books was first encountered in an inscription of the Assyrian Shalmaneser3, who in 854 BC led an expedition against the King of Damascus and his allied, among whom was an Arabian Sheikh. It was stated" Karkar his royal city, I destroyed, I devastated, I burned with fire..." It is also significant that the first Arabian in recorded history should be associated with the Camel.
In the Pre Islamic age the Arabians were not a military people. Their history was that of traders - of prosperous maritime civilization in the South, which linked India with Africa, and in the North was memorable for the rise of the two great cities on the trade routes, Petra and Palmyra, both in due course destroyed, devastated and both now notable ruins.
Rest apart, it is the rise of Islam , the religion of the submission to the will of Allah, which concerns us most here. It is sufficient to note that by the beginning of the 7th century of the Christian era, the national life developed in the early South Arabia had become utterly disrupted. Vague
At that time Muslims call the era before the appearance of Muhammad sws the Jahiliya period, a term usually rendered as time of ignorance or barbarism. Although, the North Arabians produced no system of writing almost until the time of Muhammad, this was the period in which Arabia has no dispensation , no inspired Prophet and no revealed book.
It was only in the field of poetical expression that the pre Islamic Arabian excelled. The Bedouins love of poetry was his one cultural asset. Besides being oracle, guide , orators and spokesman of community the poet was its historian and scientist, in so far as it had a scientist. Bedouins measured intelligence by poetry according to the author.
However, in the city of Mecca, in the territory of Hijaz, the barren country standing like barrier between the uplands of Najd and the low coastal region, there was a diety named Allah swt. By ramsha Amir
In the Pre Islamic age the Arabians were not a military people. Their history was that of traders - of prosperous maritime civilization in the South, which linked India with Africa, and in the North was memorable for the rise of the two great cities on the trade routes, Petra and Palmyra, both in due course destroyed, devastated and both now notable ruins.
Rest apart, it is the rise of Islam , the religion of the submission to the will of Allah, which concerns us most here. It is sufficient to note that by the beginning of the 7th century of the Christian era, the national life developed in the early South Arabia had become utterly disrupted. Vague
At that time Muslims call the era before the appearance of Muhammad sws the Jahiliya period, a term usually rendered as time of ignorance or barbarism. Although, the North Arabians produced no system of writing almost until the time of Muhammad, this was the period in which Arabia has no dispensation , no inspired Prophet and no revealed book.
It was only in the field of poetical expression that the pre Islamic Arabian excelled. The Bedouins love of poetry was his one cultural asset. Besides being oracle, guide , orators and spokesman of community the poet was its historian and scientist, in so far as it had a scientist. Bedouins measured intelligence by poetry according to the author.
However, in the city of Mecca, in the territory of Hijaz, the barren country standing like barrier between the uplands of Najd and the low coastal region, there was a diety named Allah swt. By ramsha Amir
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