Arabian Peninsula before Islam
The Arabian Peninsula is a rectangular piece of land surrounded by the Red Sea on the west, the Persian Gulf on the east, and the Arabian Sea to the south. To the north lie Syria, Jordan, Palestine lands which saw the birth of Judaism and Christianity. Many Jewish and Christin influences had penetrated Arabia before the coming of Islam in the 7th century, but the inhabitants of the peninsula- the Arabs- did not follow rather of those religions. Islam, as taught by the Prophet Muhammad, himself an Arab, was the religion that would convert the Arabs masse to monotheism, or the belief one God.