RLG350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pessimism, Quraysh, Jahiliyyah
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Christianity: religion of the empire, monotheism, structure; bishops, cities, churches, councils, Judaism: disappearing from christian land but was still prominent where the arabs were living. B and s empire; major series of wars, global wars: plague. It is interesting that the land was massive but also insignificant. There are wars happening all around it, but nothing in the midst. If you take yemen out, there are no cities. The settlements are usually around oasis, water resources. Style of traveling with all your belongings, following season rainfall to graze your cattle. Areas were known to belong to certain tribes. The camels allowed them to move, thus the camels allowed them to move long raging distances. All of these men are by definition warriors of skills. They can write, use the sword and the arrow. One of their sources of income was raids against each other. There was no central government thus, they depended on these raids.
