The genus is native to Africa, and is common in the Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, the islands of Africa including Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Arabic music is the music of Arab people or countries, especially those centered on the Arabian Peninsula.

The Arabian Sea ( Persian Sea ) is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the south by northeastern Somalia, on the east by India and on the west by the Arabian Peninsula.

These include Mesopotamia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, Anatolia, the Caucasus, parts of Central Asia, Syria, Palestine and Phoenician settlements in the western Mediterranean from the prehistoric period until the beginning of Islam in the 7th century.

He said: ' It will not be called until ten signs have appeared: Smoke, Dajjal Antichrist, the creature ( that will wound the people ), the rising of the sun in the West, the Second Coming of Jesus, the emergence of Gog and Magog, and three sinkings ( or cavings in of the earth ): one in the East, another in the West and a third in the Arabian Peninsula.

The practice persists in 28 African countries, as well as in the Arabian Peninsula, where Types I and II are more common.

* Arabian Peninsula

The term normally does not include Anatolia ( although at times Cilicia may be included ), the Caucasus Mountains, or any part of the Arabian Peninsula proper.

Some archaeologists suggest a group from the Arabian Peninsula ( who trade with Mesopotamia ) settled among the indigenous peoples who had been there since the original Semitic emigration.

Emerging from the Arabian Peninsula, the Muslims quickly conquered the collapsing Persian empire.

The desert is in the southwest and central provinces along the borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan and geographically belongs with the Arabian Peninsula.

The desert zone, an area lying west and southwest of the Euphrates River, is a part of the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert, which covers sections of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia and most of the Arabian Peninsula.

On 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula.

The Quran introduced a number of different rights and restrictions on matters of inheritance, including general improvements to the treatment of women and family life compared to the pre-Islamic societies that existed in the Arabian Peninsula at the time.

Over a long time, Jews formed distinct ethnic groups in several different geographic areas — amongst others, the Ashkenazi Jews ( of central and Eastern Europe ), the Sephardi Jews ( of Spain, Portugal, and North Africa ), the Beta Israel of Ethiopia, and the Yemenite Jews from the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

Kenya's proximity to the Arabian Peninsula invited trade and later colonization.

: Arabian Peninsula except in the desert and across the Red Sea into Africa.

Over the centuries, members of the nomadic tribes of the Arabian Peninsula sought a more prosperous life in Lebanon.

Mosques originated on the Arabian Peninsula, but are now found in all inhabited continents.

However, the first three masajid were very simple open spaces on the Arabian Peninsula.

Mosques were built outside the Arabian Peninsula as Muslims moved to other parts of the world.

With few exceptions, mosques in the Arabian Peninsula as well as Morocco do not allow entry to non-Muslims.

Consequently, each legitimises the other. he was born in 1703 died: 1792 88-89 18th century school: hanbali region = Arabian Peninsula

The South Arabian alphabet, a sister script to the Phoenician alphabet, is the script from which the Ge ' ez alphabet ( an abugida ) is descended.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

Ares was also worshipped by the Baharna of Tylos, however it is not known in the form of which Arabian god or if he was worshipped in his Greek form.

It is an inlet of the Arabian Sea indenting the sandy Makran coast at the Iran – Pakistan border.

The Arabian Sea's surface area is about.

However, Bethlehem is affected also by annual waves of hot, dry, sandy and dust Khamaseen winds from the Arabian Desert, during April, May and mid-June.

In the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherazade is portrayed as being the " voice of sanity and mercy ", with her philosophical position being generally opposed to punishment by death.

An early Muslim tradition is that the Negus Ashama ibn Abjar offered asylum to a group of Muslims fleeing persecution during Muhammad's life ( 615 ), but Stuart Munro-Hay believes that Axum had been abandoned as the capital by then – although Kobishchanov states that Ethiopian raiders plagued the Red Sea, preying on Arabian ports at least as late as 702.

Another example is the strongly oblique convergent plate boundary between the Arabian and Eurasian plates where it runs through the northwestern part of the Zagros mountains.

The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (— Ḫalīdj ʾUmān ; alternatively known as خليج مکران —, Ḫalīdj Makrān ; in Persian: دریای عمان Daryā-ye Ommān, or دریای مکران Daryā-ye Makrān ; in Khaleej Oman ) is a strait ( and not an actual gulf ) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf.

It is generally included as a branch of the Persian Gulf, not as an arm of the Arabian Sea.

The Levant is a geographical term that refers to a large area in Southwest Asia, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the Arabian Desert in the south, and the Zagros Mountains in the east.

Kochi is another major Indian port on the Arabian Sea.

It is a deep natural harbour and is known as " The Queen of the Arabian Sea ".

On the south, India projects into and is bounded by the Indian Ocean – in particular, by the Arabian Sea on the southwest, the Laccadive Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

Arabian mythology is the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arab people.

The reason for barring Indian ships from entering the wealthy Arabian port cities was to protect and hide the exploitative trade practices of the Somali and Arab merchants in the extremely lucrative ancient Red Sea-Mediterranean Sea commerce.

In Arabic superstition, the qarînah () is a spirit similar to the succubus, with origins possibly in ancient Egyptian religion or in the animistic beliefs of pre-Islamic Arabia ( see Arabian mythology ).

Its name is thought to come from the ancient Arabian town of Suluk, Libya, although in the modern era it has also been called the Gazelle Hound or Persian Greyhound.

Other Arabian Nights tales also depict Amazon societies dominated by women, lost ancient technologies, advanced ancient civilizations that went astray, and catastrophes which overwhelmed them.

What they do show is that the fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales ( compiled circa 1500 AD ), such as Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel and the Dragon.

The craftsmen not only catered to all the local needs but surplus items were sent to ancient Arabian cultures via ancient sea routes.

One author writes about the geology of the nation: " Bahrein lies on a portion of the ancient Tethys Ocean geosynclinal belt represented today by the Arabian Gulf.

Other Arabian Nights tales deal with lost ancient technologies, advanced ancient civilizations that went astray, and catastrophes which overwhelmed them.

; 7th century: The rise and domination of Islam among largely pagan Arabs in the Arabian peninsula results in the almost complete removal and conversion of the ancient Jewish communities there, and sack of Levant from the hands of Byzantines.

The province's principal city and current capital, Xi ' an, is one of the four great ancient capitals of China and is the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, which leads to Europe, the Arabian Peninsula and Africa.

In 1984, Fabrizio De André published the LP Creuza de ma, in Genoese dialect ( an ancient dialect, with ancient and obsolete words, imported from Arabian, with linguistic difficulties among the same Genoese ).

The construction of Great Zimbabwe is claimed too by the Lemba, an ethnic group with a tradition of ancient Jewish or South Arabian descent through their male line, which is supported by recent DNA studies, and female ancestry derived from the Karanga subgroup of the Shona ; the Lemba maintain that their male forebears came in ships from a distant country in order to obtain gold.

Indeed, not even the ancient South Arabian language appears to have been widely spoken in Nejd in ancient times, unlike southern Saudi Arabia, for example.

There also appear to be some links to northern Semitic peoples such as the Syrians and possibly ancient Hebrews, but fewer links to southern Semites in the Arabian peninsula in spite of the region having been conquered very early by Muslim Arabs.

Lothal's dockyards connected to an ancient course of the Sabarmati river on the trade route between Harappan cities in Sindh and the peninsula of Saurashtra when the surrounding Kutch desert was a part of the Arabian Sea.

In ancient Arabian folklore, the ghūl ( Arabic: literally demon ) dwells in burial grounds and other uninhabited places.

Reliefs discovered in the ancient ruins of Nimrud ( the ancient Assyrian city founded by king Shalmaneser I during the 13th century BC ) depict for the first time riders wearing plated-mail shirts composed of metal scales, presumably deployed to provide the Assyrians with a tactical advantage over the unprotected mounted archers of their nomadic enemies, primarily the Aramaeans, Mushki, North Arabian tribes and the Babylonians.