What characteristics can be used to describe the people of the Arabian Peninsula before the emergence of Islam?

Answer 1

Answer 1

They were polytheistic, following a number of local gods/goddesses. Many were animists (believers in spirits) or henotheists (people who believed in one superior god and numerous lesser gods). Many of the tribes worshiped animal-like statues and moon goddess.

Poetry and language were very important to them, and towns would hold poetry competitions.

Tribal and kinship affiliations were the most important part of a person's identity and was the ultimate basis of society, leading to many wars over trade routes by different tribes that wished to profit from them.

There were people who were nomadic, semi-nomadic and completely settled. An individual clan would have members in all three areas.

Answer 2

People of Arabia used to kill their daughters when born and they buried them alive in their childhood no good for a women to be born

But when Islam came they give respect and a rank to women they made women equally with men due to which Arabs has fight with Muslims.

Answer 3

The Arabs before the influence of Islam were Jews and Christians and Pagans and Nomadic tribes who believed in several Gods. Women were just objects of desire and had no rights and the Arabs were arrogant, cruel, barbaric and uncivilized race always fighting with frequent tribal rivalry. Female children were buried alive as they were not welcomed and accepted by the Arab men. With the emergence of Islam things gradually changed, Law and Order prevailed, women were given more rights and respectability and trade and commerce flourished.

Answer 2

The Arabian Peninsula was generally considered a cultural backwater prior to the emergence of Islam and neglected by the major civilizations of the world. It was internally defined by numerous ethno-religious tribes of Bedouin (Nomadic Arabs), each with a Sheikh (tribal elder) and a pantheon of gods that they worshipped and accepted. Some of these tribes were polytheistic, some were henotheistic (believing in one superior god and many inferior gods), some were monolatrous (believing in many gods but worshiping only one), and some were monotheists like the Hanifs, Sabians, Jews, and Christians. There were also large cities around the oases where the various tribes would trade and interact less violently than they would in the wild.

Answer 3

polytheist