Pre-Islamic Arab Converts to Christianity in Mecca and Medina: An Investigation into the Arabic Sources

From: The Muslim World | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: Osman, Ghada | Copyright information

By the late sixth and early seventh centuries, trade had opened up the worlds of Meccans and Medinans, bringing them into contact with many people from nearby lands. As the scope and intensity of trade relations increased, so did the Arabs' contact with foreigners, including Christians from South Arabia, Abyssinia, Egypt, and Syria. By the late sixth century, Christianity had stopped being only a religion of foreigners, as it began to take hold in the Meccan and Medinan populations themselves...

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