- South West Asia
- The hilly portion of Northern Arabia
- 1500 miles
- 1300 miles
- 12,00,000 sq. miles
- Nifud, Dahna, Rab'al Khali
- It is surrounded by water on three sides and by sand on the fourth (on its
west, east and south are Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf respectively
and on it North is the desert of Nifud).
- Egypt and Iraq
- Greco-Roman civilization
- Fertile countries of Iraq , Syria and Egypt are called 'fertile crescent".
- Saracens was originally a name given to a North Arabian tribe by the
ancient writers. The word used by the Greeks and Romans was Saraceni.
The name was applied by medieval Christians and and later Western historians
to the Arabs in general and also to other Muslim peoples of the Middle East.
The word Saraceni is supposed to be derived either from
Sahara = desert, and nashin = dwellers; or from
Sharkiin = Eastern, Shark, in Arabic meaning East.
- Arab Baida, Arab Ariba( the real Arabs), Arab Musta'riba
- Arab Baida
- Arab Ariba.
- Arab Musta'riba - they are the descendants of Hazrat Ismail.
- Arab Musta'riba
- Adnanites are descendants of Hazrat Ismail's son Adnan. The Nizarites and
Modharites Arabs are from two descendants of Hazrat Ismail named Nizar and
Modhar.
- The Nizarites and Modharites
- Bedouins is the English equivalent of the Arabic word Bedwin,
which is the plural of the word Bedwai, meaning
"dweller of the desert".
- The dwellers of the town.
- The people of the desert.
- Banu or hayy
- Shaikh
- The earliest
inhabitants of Arabia were a Negroid race.
- Banu Qahtan
- Rab'al Khali, a vast desert in South Arabia.
- Banu Qahtan
- The Mai'n kingdom, which
flourished from 1200 B.C. to 650 B.C., was overthrown by another
kingdom. Which?
- The Sabaean kingdom of the Banu Qahtan.
- The Dam of Ma'rib, known as the Sadd Ma'rib in Yemen.
- The Himyarite kingdom of Sana, a branch of the Banu Qahtan, known as
Himyar.
- "The happy Arabia"
- The term "Arabia Deserta" was used for the sandy
Central Arabia.
- The term "Arabia Petra" was used for the stony
Northern Arabia.
- The Himyarite kingdom of Sana
- The castle of Ghumdan
- The Himyar kingdom declined in about 525 AD?
- About 450 AD.
- The long period of more than a century before the rise of Islam was called
the "Jahiliya period" or the Age
of Ignorance?
- About 540 AD
- Aus and Khazraj
- Byzantine
- Du Nuwas
- Jew
- Justin I
- Du Nuwas persecuted christians.
- Negus was king of Abyssinia
- Negus sent an army of 70,000 soldiers to fight Du Nuwas. In which year
this war was fought?
- How long was the Abyssinian rule in Arabia?
- Saif, son of Zu'l-yezen.
- In 525 AD
- Marzban
- Hijaz
- Quraysh
- Thaqif (or Saqaif)
- Quraysh was the surname of Fihr, who lived in the 3rd
Century AD and was a descendant of Maad, son of Adnan. In ancient Arabic the
word Quraysh meant "merchant".
- Qasay or Kossay, who lived in 5th Century AD, was a descendant of
Fihr. Kossay made himself initially master of Mecca and then gradually of the
whole Hijaz.
- Kossay, who also erected for himself a palace.
- It was the principal chamber in the palace of Kossay used as the Council
Hall of the people for the transaction of public business.
- Kossay. These stone houses were built around Ka'aba.
- About 480 AD.
- His son Abd-ud-Dar.
- The grandsons of Abd-ud-Dar and sons of his brother Abd Manaf.
- The dispute was settled by a division of authority.
- Abd-us-Shams, a son of Abd Manaf.
- Grandsons of Abd-ud-Dar.
- His brother Hashim, a leading merchant of Mecca.
- About 510 AD.
- His brother Muttalib.
- About 520 AD.
- His nephew Shayba , son of Hashim.
- Abdul Muttalib.
- Son of Abd-us-Shams
- About 59 years.
- The heads of the ten principal families.
- Abrahah was an Abyssinian cheif.
- Abrahah wanted to destroy Ka'aba in order to destroy it for its importance
as a national religious center of the Arabs.
- The year of Elephant. The Arab gave this name to the year 570 AD as they
had never seen the elephant before.
- None
- The Wars of the "Days of the Arabs"
- Basus was name of the old woman who owned the she-camel
- The She-Camel of Basus was wounded by a chief of the Taghlib tribe. She
taunted her tribe, Banu Bakr to a war with Banu Taghlib tribe.
- Banu Taghlib and Banu Bakr
- 40 years
- In 525 AD
- Wai'l
- the War of Dahis and al-Ghabra
- The horse race between the horse Dahis and mare al-Ghabra
- Almost 40 years
- Ukaz was the venue of the most popular fair.
- "Mu'allaqat" was the name given to the famous
poems and odes.
- "al-Hubal", "al-Lat" ,"al-Uzza" and "al-Manat"
were the most important of the gods and goddesses of the pagan Arabs.
- Yaghush, Wadd and Nasr were somewhat lesser
gods and deities.
- "al-Hubal"
- females
- The meaning of al-Lat is "goddess"?
- For the Bedouin Arabs"al-Lat" ,"al-Uzza" and "al-Manat"
were the goddesses of the Sun, the Planet Venus, and the Fortune,
respectively.
- The temple of "al-Uzza" was at Nakhla,
between Mecca and Taif.
- The sanctuary of al-Lat was at Taif.
- Ka'aba was the sanctuary of al-Hubal
- The frankincense
- 360
- A mad man was called a "majnun" by the ancient
Arabs because they believed that he was possessed by a jinn.
- The Magianism is the fire-worship.
- The Sabaeanism is the Star-Worship.
- Banu Ghassan and Banu Taghlib
- Khayber, Yathrib, Taima and Sana
- Two main sects of the Christians in Ancient Arabia
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