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“During its peak in the eighth to ninth centuries, the Babylonian version of Hebrew extended from Persia to Yemen. It declined in the tenth…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“In fact their presence in the Arabian Peninsula was so influential that for a short period in the sixth century the royal household of…

— Harry Freedman

“Nabataean (i.e., Syro-Arabian) people had a dialect differing somewhat from both Syriac and Arabic. Remains of this language are found in inscriptions in the…

— James John Courtenay

“There was a Christianity in Arabia -that of the Nasara, or 'Nazarenes'- which was several centuries older than the one which relates to the…

— Kamal Salibi

“It is found that the Egyptian language has an appreciable admixture of Semitic, which was derived ultimately from Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story about the…

— Toby Lester

“the Nabataeans were real Arabs .. there is substantial agreement of Biblical Aramaic with Nabataean, both in words and construction.”

— John Courtenay James

“Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the…

— Jim Al-Khalili

“Furthermore, the Prophet’s gracious reception of the Christians of Najran in Medina, where he allowed them to pray in his mosque and affirmed the…

— Asma Afsaruddin

“The Qur’an sought to reform, not to destroy and start from scratch, to salvage what was useful and then to modify and build on…

— Jeffrey Lang

“Judaic monotheism had deeply penetrated Arabia for almost a century before Muhammad declared his revelation in 610 in one of the towns – Makka,…

— Simon Schama

“Language was critically important to the religious transition. The rise of Islam meant not just the eclipse of Christianity but the near annihilation of…

— Philip Jenkins