The “Great and Terrible Wilderness”
http://www.varchive.org/ce/baalbek/desert.htm
Affidavit
http://www.varchive.org/ce/affidavit.htm
[snip] Harras in desert of Arabia are meteorites fields. Lava streamed on the surface of the Earth not only from volcanoes, but also from clefts. Continents and seas changed places. Rivers disappeared, others appeared, still others inversed their direction (f.e. Jordan, that flow previously to the Mediterranean, Dead sea being not in existence). [/snip]
The End of the Early Bronze Age (see note #3)
http://www.varchive.org/itb/bronzage.htm
The Overthrow of the Cities of the Plain
http://www.varchive.org/itb/overthrow.htm
The Age of the Dead Sea
http://www.varchive.org/itb/deadsea.htm
The Great Rift and the Jordan
http://www.varchive.org/itb/rift.htm
Evidently the disturbance in the accustomed flow of events was experienced not only in Egypt, but in Arabia, too. Mecca, like Memphis, was visited by plagues: the shock that overthrew the cities of Egypt brought the Amalekites, at that time conquerors of Mecca, into disorder and tumult. They became like herds of animals brought to a state of excitement by an earthquake, and their fugacious troops reached Mount Seir (the Old Testament designates Mount Seir as their “native land” ) and arrived at the shores of the Red Sea as the Israelites were escaping from Egypt.
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One pre-islamic arabic legend had it that they followed a long black cloud which they believed held promise of rain (but it was soot) and from this we now have the 'black cloud' prophecy of the return of the madhi, and the black flags of islam.