- Answer: Syrian Desert (Covering SE Syria, Jordan, Western Iraq & North KSA). Source: Robert Hoyland, Oxford University.
- Arabia & The Arabs From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam, Oxford Historian Robert G Hoyland “They (Arabs) are first Mentioned in Biblical & Assyrian texts of the Ninth to Fifth centuries BC where they appeared as Nomadic pastoralists inhabiting the Syrian Desert”
It’s the view of many Linguists & historians. Dr Ahmad Al Jallad, Harvard scholar in Arabic history. Its studying the Origins of the term عرب and it seems it was related to geography & the Desert. That’s where all the early mentions of Arabs appear (Syrian Desert)
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