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    Religionen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel zu Beginn des 5. Jahrhunderts

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    1. vladgrinch on

      At the beginning of the 5th century AD, the Arabian Peninsula displayed wide religious diversity. Paganism prevailed in Mecca, Najd, and Taif, while Christianity spread in the south and north, especially in Najran and Al-Hirah. Judaism was prominent in Yathrib, Khaybar, and Tayma, and some Himyarite kings, such as Dhu Nuwas, adopted it. In the east, Zoroastrianism appeared in Al-Ahsa and Al-Qatif under Persian influence. Thus, Arabia was a blend of various faiths that paved the way for the emergence of Islam in the 6th century AD.

    3. wolfishlygrinning on

      „In the Shadow of the Sword“ by Tom Holland details this very well

    4. FudgeAtron on

      The area labeled Judaism in Judean Hills should actually be Samaritanism. They made up a much larger group than Jews at the time.

    5. Modsneedjobs on

      New scholarship looking at pre Islamic inscriptions indicates that Christianity/hanifism/abrahamic faiths were very widespread in the Arab peninsula in the centuries before Mohamad’s life.

      The “pagans” he fought against were probably just less strictly monotheistic/more syncretic Christianity/hanifism.

    7. FGSM219 on

      The Ghassanids, Christian Arabs and vassals of Byzantium, are a fascinating polity, rather underresearched in the history of the Middle East (Christian Axum/Ethiopia, a powerful empire, is also underresearched, if you count Ethiopia as Middle Eastern, which is a big if).

    10. L7Z7Z on

      Is Hanifism somehow related to Muslim? It’s where Muslim born if I am not wrong 

    14. H3BCKN on

      FYI: almost everything we know about pre-islamic Arabian customs and religion came from later Islamic resources. Which for obvious reasons are very biased and archeological researches quite often disprove their narrative.

      For instance, there are some insights suggesting that in late 6th and early 7th century, Arabic paganism was already almost extinct.

    15. terroristhater2001 on

      imagine if this never changed and we ended up getting hebroothies in yemen

    17. kuroaaa on

      I don’t think hanifism ever existed. As a muslim I believe it was something arabs made up so the prophet Muhammad were to be always believer of God and never pagan.

    19. TheUnknown-Writer on

      The gulf as Chrisitan… that is so long ago I cant even conceptualize it. 

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