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Collection of the Names of Writers Who Spoke About the Arabs and Before Islam

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Collection of the names of writers who spoke about the Arabs and mentioned them in their books before the Prophetic Mission

From the Ninth Century to the Fifth Century BC

1 - Homer (Greek poet of Egyptian origin)

2 - Hecataeus of Miletus (Greek historian and geographer)

3 - Herodotus (Greek historian)

4 - Aeschylus (Greek poet)

From the Fourth Century to the First Century BC

5 - Xenophon (Greek historian)

6 - Ctesias of Cnidus (Greek historian)

7 - Pseudo-Scylax (Greek geographer)

8 - Zeno the Stoic (Phoenician philosopher)

9 - Manetho of Sebennytos (Egyptian historian)

10 - Berossus the Chaldean (Babylonian historian)

11 - Artapanus of Alexandria (Jewish historian)

12 - Demetrius the Chronographer (Jewish historian)

13 - Eratosthenes (Greek geographer)

14 - Cleodemus Malchus (Semitic historian, possibly Jewish, Nabataean, or Phoenician)

15 - Polybius (Greek historian)

16 - Agatharchides of Cnidus (Greek historian and geographer)

17 - Jubilees (Jewish book)

18 - Diodorus Siculus (Greek historian and geographer)

19 - Posidonius of Apamea (Greek historian)

20 - Catullus (Roman poet)

21 - Cicero (Roman politician and historian)

  • From the first century to the sixth century AD

22 - Strabo (Greek historian and geographer)

23 - Claudius, the Roman Emperor (Roman historian)

24 - Pomponius Mela (Roman geographer)

25 - Lucan (Roman poet)

26 - Pliny (Roman historian and geographer)

27 - Curtius Rufus (Roman historian)

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (a work written by a Greek geographer)

28 - Josephus (Jewish historian)

29 - Lives of the Prophets (a book written by a Jewish man)

30 - Dio Chrysostom (Greek historian and philosopher)

31 - Tacitus (Roman historian)

32 - Plutarch (Greek historian and writer)

33 - Ptolemy (Greek historian and geographer)

34 - Appian (Greek historian)

35 - Arrian (Roman historian)

36 - Justin (Greek Christian cleric)

37 - Tertullian (Christian cleric)

38 - Cassius Dio (Greek historian)

39 - Sextus Julius Africanus (Christian cleric and historian)

40 - Hippolytus of Rome (Christian cleric and historian)

41 - Quadratus of Athens (Greek historian)

42 - Origen (Christian cleric)

43 - Lactantius (Phoenician Christian cleric)

44 - Eusebius of Caesarea (Greek Christian cleric and historian)

45 - Description of the World and Its Peoples | Expositio totius mundi et gentium (written by a Greek geographer)

46 - Jerome (Roman Christian cleric and historian)

47 - Aurelius Victor (Roman historian)

48 - Ammianus (Roman historian)

49 - Epiphanius of Salamis (Christian cleric)

50 - Orosius (Roman Christian historian)

51 - Philostorgius (Arian Christian cleric and historian)

52 - Socrates of Constantinople (Greek Christian historian)

53 - Sozomen (Palestinian Christian historian)

54 - Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus (Syriac Christian cleric and historian from the Syriac Church)

55 - Zosimus (Greek pagan historian)

56 - John Malalas (Antiochian Christian historian)

57 - Procopius (Greek Christian historian)

58 - Cosmas the Monk (Greek Christian monk and geographer)

59 - Stephanus of Byzantium (Greek Christian historian and geographer)

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