Aren’t Arabs originally in other countries in the middle east? What is the difference between Arabs in, say, Jordan, and those in Arabian peninsula?
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The majority of Arabs’ ancestors came from the Arabian Peninsula. They moved north, west and east and conquered most of the Middle East between approximately 630 and 700 AD. Jihad was their rallying call to conquer for Islam.
So who lived in the Middle East before Mohammed? I knew Jews but not everyone was Jewish.