History of Arab Thought (Paperback)

As we finish of what geography requires of us, we now dwell on giving a clear account to the important natural impact of the desert and other sections and regions of the peninsula on the people as topography affects them and colors the weaves of their fabric. Topography gives us a clue of how and why people believe and think in such a fashion and how they differ from other people in another natural topography. Aside from that, it imprints upon the people a denominator and a common natural bond. Meanwhile, we are equipped with whatever factors we examined above, and are ready to discuss the early people of the Arabian Peninsula and their development of a tribal state system, as some tribes began to establish themselves within a permanent geographical location, functioning as a sociopolitical entity independent like city states in early Europe. Arab tribes were pagan and had many natural and physical gods. Tribes had special gods, and seldom, a single tribe had one adopted god too. At a later stage, we find some tribal heads confessing Judaism and converting therefore number of their tribes to this faith.