96. Pre-Islamic Arabia, with Valentina Grasso
Byzantium & Friends
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Christianity in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Christianity is definitely active in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, from the 5th century onwards. And you have also Christianity in the North, in Northwest Arabia and Northeast Arabia - but that's a different story. We're starting to have a good picture now thanks to new discoveries,. There has been a really important one, a monastery a couple of months ago which was created by NYU in East Arabia. But again this is the picture of East Arabia which definitely changed in the next couple of years; we are also in an infancy phase here.
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