Pre-Islamic Arabia, the history of
Arabia before the rise of
Islam in the
630s, is not known in great detail. Archaeological exploration in the
Arabian peninsula has been sparse; indigenous written sources are limited to the many inscriptions and coins from southern Arabia. Existing material consists primarily of written sources from other traditions (such as
Egyptians,
Greeks, Persians,
Romans, etc.) and
oral traditions later recorded by Islamic scholars. The topic is relevant to
Islamic studies because it is the context in which
Islam was formed.
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