Jewish tribes of Arabia
The Arab Jewish tribes are the Arab 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.
Tribes
Some of the Arab Jewish tribes historically attested include:
See also
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