Jewish Tribes of Arabia

The Jewish tribes of Arabia are the tribes professing the Jewish faith that inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before and during the advent of Islam. It is not always clear whether they were originally Israelite in ancestry, genealogically Arab tribes that converted to Judaism, or a mixture of both. Jewish tradition records the existence of nomadic tribes such as the Rechabites that converted to Judaism in antiquity.

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