Pre-Islamic Bahrain - introduction

Pre-Islamic Bahrain - introduction
The sedentary people of pre-Islamic Bahrain were mainly Aramaic speakers and to some degree Persian speakers while Syriac functioned as a liturgical language.[1][2] In pre-Islamic times, the population of Bahrain consisted of Christianized Arabs (including Abd al-Qays), Aramean Christians, Persian-speaking Zoroastrians[3] and Jewish agriculturalists.[4][1] According to Robert Bertram Serjeant, the Baharna may be the Arabized "descendants of converts from the original population of Christians (Aramaeans), Jews and ancient Persians (Majus) inhabiting the island and cultivated coastal provinces of Bahrain at the time of the Arab conquest".[5][4] Nestorian Christianity was the dominant religion in pre-Islamic Bahrain.
Zoroastrianism was also present,[6][7][8] the Zoroastrians of Bahrain were known as "Majoos" in pre-Islamic times.[9] The sedentary dialects of Bahrain, including Bahrani Arabic, were influenced by Akkadian, Aramaic and Syriac languages.[10][11]
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