Essay On Pre Islamic Culture

Prior to the Islamic period, the Middle East was divided between two big empires, the Persians and Byzantine. The Persians supported the multiculturalism and allowed the locals to live their life with their own norms and culture. They established the unified taxation and legislation and even employed a number of translators to spread their decrees and wisdom among the captured nations. Therefore, under the reign of two Empires, the societies of the Middle East were able to preserve their culture, still being influenced by the Persians and Byzantine cultures (Ansary. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic Eyes).

At the same time, the emergence of Islam on the Arabian peninsula marked the start of the period, when the Middle East transformed from the conquered territory to conqueror itself. Islam and Arabic language brought the long-needed unity and established the grounds for the development of societies of the Middle East. Being

(Alkhateeb. What was special about pre-Islamic Arabic?). Nevertheless, no need for unified protection led to the absence of the unified authority. No centralized government was present in the Middle East prior to Islam. Only Yemen had some form of government, while the states of the Arabian peninsula were divided between competing tribes. This absence of unified political authority made Arabia less powerful in political terms, compared to the dominant Empires (Razwy. A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims). The emergence of Islam facilitated the establishment of single political authority. Rival tribes were unified under the reign of the Arabs, which strengthened them in political and economic