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A brief history of Arab culture includes its origin and proliferation.
The ancient Arabic culture is considered Semitic and originated in the Arabian Peninsula alongside Sabaeans. These people delineated as Armenians, Akkadians, and Canaanites and eventually migrated to the “Near East,” comprised of Mesopotamia and Lavant nearly four thousand years ago. They initially dominated the Near East region, but eventually lost prominence due to various wars and political turmoil. Control was relinquished to the Persian Empire, but the Aramaic language remained the dominant prestigious language until Alexander III’s conquest, when Greek replaced Aramaic as the dominant language of the region.
The Wax and Wane of the Arabs
Arabs were distinguished from Sabaeans by region—while Sabaeans inhabited the Southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, while the Arabs lived in the north. Arabs were comprised to two groups—nomadic Arabs known as Bedouins and sedentary Arabs, which were Bedouins that found an area with enough sustainable resources to maintain a small society. This is indicative of the fact that Bedouins were nomadic due to the harsh weather conditions of the arid Arabian region. Thus, the majority of Arabs were comprised of small, hereditary tribes, resulting in little economic and militaristic prominence. Subsequently, Arabs did not enjoy much power or prosperity until surrounding influences such as Sabaeans and Mesopotamians. They were instead trade intermediaries and herders. Eventually, Arabic tribes began to coalesce; the Greek Seleucids and Sabaeans began to decline, resulting in Arabic proliferation.
The Arabic culture experienced another decline with the rise of the Byzantine Empire, the Sabaeans, and the Persian Empire. This also marked the period of the emergence of Judaism and Christianity, which spread simultaneously as two very similar Semitic religions. These two religions existed concurrently with the residual Bedouin religion, a polytheistic faith that observed Allah, a god akin to the Christian and Jewish singular god, as well as Allah’s three daughters.
The Arabic culture rose once again around the turn of the first millennium. Bedouin culture and military power grew to impressive proportions. Mecca was founded as the religious center, Arabic became the primary language, poetry as well as prose became wildly popular, and the concept or “manliness,” or “muru’a” was developed to characterize the largely patriarchic society. This prominence sustained and solidified the Arabic culture, as we know it today for 500 years, at which point the Quraysh Tribe conquered Mecca. The Arabs did not rise again until the appearance of the prophet Muhammad and the emergence of Islam.http://www.ccasonline.org/brief-history-of-arab-culture.html
The ancient Arabic culture is considered Semitic and originated in the Arabian Peninsula alongside Sabaeans. These people delineated as Armenians, Akkadians, and Canaanites and eventually migrated to the “Near East,” comprised of Mesopotamia and Lavant nearly four thousand years ago. They initially dominated the Near East region, but eventually lost prominence due to various wars and political turmoil. Control was relinquished to the Persian Empire, but the Aramaic language remained the dominant prestigious language until Alexander III’s conquest, when Greek replaced Aramaic as the dominant language of the region.
The Wax and Wane of the Arabs
Arabs were distinguished from Sabaeans by region—while Sabaeans inhabited the Southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, while the Arabs lived in the north. Arabs were comprised to two groups—nomadic Arabs known as Bedouins and sedentary Arabs, which were Bedouins that found an area with enough sustainable resources to maintain a small society. This is indicative of the fact that Bedouins were nomadic due to the harsh weather conditions of the arid Arabian region. Thus, the majority of Arabs were comprised of small, hereditary tribes, resulting in little economic and militaristic prominence. Subsequently, Arabs did not enjoy much power or prosperity until surrounding influences such as Sabaeans and Mesopotamians. They were instead trade intermediaries and herders. Eventually, Arabic tribes began to coalesce; the Greek Seleucids and Sabaeans began to decline, resulting in Arabic proliferation.
The Arabic culture experienced another decline with the rise of the Byzantine Empire, the Sabaeans, and the Persian Empire. This also marked the period of the emergence of Judaism and Christianity, which spread simultaneously as two very similar Semitic religions. These two religions existed concurrently with the residual Bedouin religion, a polytheistic faith that observed Allah, a god akin to the Christian and Jewish singular god, as well as Allah’s three daughters.
The Arabic culture rose once again around the turn of the first millennium. Bedouin culture and military power grew to impressive proportions. Mecca was founded as the religious center, Arabic became the primary language, poetry as well as prose became wildly popular, and the concept or “manliness,” or “muru’a” was developed to characterize the largely patriarchic society. This prominence sustained and solidified the Arabic culture, as we know it today for 500 years, at which point the Quraysh Tribe conquered Mecca. The Arabs did not rise again until the appearance of the prophet Muhammad and the emergence of Islam.http://www.ccasonline.org/brief-history-of-arab-culture.html
