RLG204H5 Chapter 1-5: RLG204 Article Summaries
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Week 1, article 1: arabia: the cradle of islam. Geography: arabian peninsula lite(cid:396)all(cid:455) k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the (cid:858)la(cid:374)d of the a(cid:396)a(cid:271)s(cid:859) Shaped like a rectangle little over one million square miles. Separated by neighboring world b natural barriers persian gulf, arabian sea, The arabs: main population of arabia is arabs, a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:396)di(cid:374)g to the (cid:271)i(cid:271)le, the(cid:455) des(cid:272)e(cid:374)d f(cid:396)o(cid:373) noah(cid:859)s eldest so(cid:374) he(cid:373) a(cid:374)d alo(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith. Phoenicians, arameans, and jews form a linguistic group called semitic descendant of. Shem/sem: arabs claim descent from ishmael, son of abraham. Hence latin name hagareni: arabs divided into 2 major groups. Yamani residing in south of arab peninsula. Before islam spoke sabaean south semitic. Mudari occupied northern part of arab peninsula. Before islam spoke various dialects of arabic: south arabia developed agriculture with relatively sophisticated civilization known as. Several kingdoms which shared common religious culture and engaged in both trade and war with one another: northern and central arabia.
