{"id":1798,"date":"2018-02-11T17:42:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T04:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2018-07-01T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:05:31","slug":"israels-history-part-2-the-arab-historical-connection-with-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/02\/israels-history-part-2-the-arab-historical-connection-with-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s history part 2 – The Arab historical connection with Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"
In this 4-part series, Professor Dov Bing examines the historic connections of Jews and Muslims to Israel and the more contemporary establishment of the State of Israel. Part 1 concerned the indigenous Jewish presence<\/a> in the land. Part 2 examines the Arab connection to Israel\/Palestine.<\/p>\n The Arab\u2019s homeland is Arabia, the southwestern peninsula of Asia. It embraces the present day Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrein, Qatar, Oman or the Persian Gulf, Muscat, and South Yemen. When in the seventh century, with the birth of the new Islamic religion, the Arabs emerged from the desert, they succeeded in establishing an empire from the Atlantic Ocean to the border of China. Purely Arab rule, exercised by the Omayyad dynasty, lasted a little over one century. The Omayyads were overthrown in 780 by the Abbasids, whose two centuries of government was increasingly dominated first by Persians, then by Turks. When the Abbasids were, in turn, defeated by the Fatimids, the Arabs had long had no part in the government of the empire – either at the centre or in the provinces. But the Arabs had one great lasting success: Arabic became the dominant language and Islam the predominant religion throughout a large part of the subjugated territories. \u201cThe invaders from the desert\u201d, wrote Professor Philip K. Hitti, the foremost Arab historian, \u201cbrought with them no tradition of learning, no heritage of culture to the lands they conquered\u2026\u201d.[12<\/a>]<\/p>\nThe Arab Historical Connection With Israel\/Palestine<\/h3>\n