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The sedentary people of pre-Islamic Eastern Arabia were mainly Aramaic, Arabic and to some degree Persian speakers while Syriac functioned as a liturgical language. [5] [6] In pre-Islamic times, the population of Eastern Arabia consisted of Christianized Arabs (including Abd al-Qays), Aramean Christians, Persian-speaking Zoroastrians [7] and Jewish agriculturalists.
The contemporary sources of information regarding the pre-Islamic Arabian religion and pantheon include a growing number of inscriptions in carvings written in Arabian scripts like Safaitic, Sabaic, and Paleo-Arabic, [8] pre-Islamic poetry, external sources such as Jewish and Greek accounts, as well as the Muslim tradition, such as the Qur'an ...
Pre-Islamic era Islamic tradition 'Amm 'Amm is the moon god of Qataban. [4] His attributes include the lightning bolts. [4] Amm is served by the judge-god Anbay and has the goddess Athirat as his consort. [5] [6] Qatabanians are also known as Banu Amm, or "children of Amm". Attested [a] 'Ammi'anas 'Ammi'anas is a god worshipped by the Khawlan.
Paleo-Arabic (or Palaeo-Arabic, sometimes called pre-Islamic Arabic or Old Arabic [1]) is a script used to write pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions and one that represents the latest pre-Islamic phase in the evolution of the Arabic script at a point in which it is recognizably similar to the Islamic Arabic script.
' a renunciate [of idolatry] ') and ḥunafā' (PLUR; حنفاء) are primarily used to refer to pre-Islamic Arabians who were Abrahamic monotheists. These people are regarded in a favorable light for shunning Arabian polytheism and solely worshipping the God of Abraham, [1] thus setting themselves apart from what is known as jahiliyyah.
Arab identity is defined independently of religious identity, and pre-dates the spread of Islam and before spread of Judaism and Christianity, with historically attested Arab Muslim tribes and Arab Christian tribes and Arab Jewish tribes. Arabs are a diverse group in terms of religious affiliations and practices.
The diversity of Muslims in the United States is vast, and so is the breadth of the Muslim American experience. Relaying short anecdotes representative of their everyday lives, nine Muslim Americans demonstrate both the adversities and blessings of Muslim American life.
The general consensus among 14th-century Arab genealogists is that Arabs are of three kinds: . Al-Arab al-Ba'ida (Arabic: العرب البائدة), "The Extinct Arabs", were an ancient group of tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia that included the ‘Ād, the Thamud, the Tasm and the Jadis, thelaq (who included branches of Banu al-Samayda), and others.