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Episode 111, Pre-Islamic Arabia.

In this program, we will discuss the history of the Arabian Peninsula

prior to the year 570 CE, the year most commonly given for the birth of the Prophet

Muhammad. And I'd like to start this episode, and this whole season of the podcast, with a

quote,

"'Hal gauder the shiawarer from mutterdammy,

"'or have you know the darer, back to whewhmie,

"'ya, Dara Ablet Biljewa, Ticklamy,

"'and, and, my, suba, dara ablet and slamy.

"'Fewa'upt in her naqtie,

"'and it's a fadden to I'd-coghawim, and the hul'u'n by the jowaiwai and

our hizn, and the hathenman, and the Thalemm,

hathouse, hathed, a-kawar,

after Ommytham.

Or, in English, now have the poets left a rip unsewn and did you see her old haunts overgrown

oh tell me Abla's home here in Jeewa good day peace and goodwill to Abla's home Right there I propped my camel like a fort and scratched the

itch to pause before I roam. One time Abla had settled in Jua, and we in Huzim, Saman, Mutafalem.

Long live you scars of sand left long ago,

vacant after Abla, mother of Hatham.

Close quote.

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