Arabia before Islam

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Arabia before Islam Richard N. Frye Just as trade had been the dominant feature of Arabia in an earlier period so now religion became the leitmotif of the era under discussion. Not that trade lost its importance, but after the fall of the Roman Empire the demand for luxury goods from the east subsided. Also there was not the great quantity of gold available to pay for the imports, and India still sought gold in payment for spices.

• tribal warfare
• competition for luxury objects increase
• great powers to the north
• south arabia
• heirs of the earlier arab principalities of the caravan cities
• islamic culture
• north
• trade
• islam
• history