G4 -Arab world before Islam

• Arabs lived as Nomads in the Arabian peninsula before Islam

• Nomads are people who move from place to place in search of food.

• Arabs livelihood was based on animal breeding and some Arabs were engaged in farming in oasis.

• One of the important ways of livelihood in the Arab world before Islam was robbing caravans

Tribal Life

• Before the rise of Islam, the Arab world was organized in the classical badawi system .

• According to badawi system, there was a committee whose members were respectable people in the tribe.

• A tribe is a group of many large families that are all related to each other. Each tribe had its only leader who united people together.