Early History Arabs and the Arabic Language
{"Image DocumentName": "Early History Arabs and the Arabic Language", "Image ImageDescription": "Pre-date the CE developments of Islam. Originated in the Arabian Peninsula. The Bedouin. Desert dwelling nomadic organized by tribes. Dwelt in Hejaz and the interior of Arabia. Many Bedouin had settled in towns and become semi-urbanized. Towns in Yathrib (Medina) and Mecca. The Nabateans. Nomadic migrants to Levant who became urbanized. Originally spoke Aramaic but switched to Arabic. Nabatean alphabet adopted by Southern Arabs and pre-Classic Arabic. Arabia Petrapolis was an flowering of an early commercial Arabic culture. Spread in Southwest Asia beginning c. 200 CE. Jewish Arabs. Arabs who had become Jews by conversion or conquest. Edomites and The Idumaean Dynasty of Judah. King Herod is the prime example. Many Arabs in Levant had become strongly Hellenized. Arab Christians Ghassanids, Lakhmids, Banu Judham. Settled Levant (Modern Jordan, Southern Israel, Sinai) and Northern Arabian Desert. Ghassanids settled Syrian Desert as clients of the Roman Empire. Lakhmids settled desert opposite Mesopotamia as clients of the Sassanid Empire. Kindites, Himyarites of Yemen ruled northern, central Arabia and the Persian Gulf coast. Zenobia of Palmyra was in all likelihood related to the Arabs. Religiously heavily influenced by Monophysite and Nestorian Christianity.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}