Talk:Ghassanids
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yemenites arent arabs! Michael 23:20, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
If anyone knows anything about Muslims Ghassanids then they should put it in. This article makes it out as if Ghassanids are all Christian. My family are originally Ghassanids and are Muslim and there are may who converted over the centuries.
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from the Aramco article. It seems there are a lot of questions about these Ghassanids- more questions than answers.:
Yet even for that dimly-illuminated, legend-enshrouded age, literary sources, when used judiciously and with extreme care, can shed light on a few key figures—such as al-Harith ibn Jabala of the Ghassan tribal confederation. [....] Scholars admit, however, that *any attempt to reconstruct Ghassanid history rests on exceedingly shaky ground until we reach the year 529,* when al-Harith ibn Jabala succeeded his father as head of the Bani Ghassan tribal confederation. [....] For the historian, perhaps the most frustrating problem in studying the Ghassanids is the relative lateness of the Arabic sources. [....] Coupled with the obvious fact that poets everywhere are creative artists and not academic historians, this makes it almost impossible for modern scholars to extract reliable historical data from the polished lyrics of the pre-Islamic bards. [....] The key Arab and Persian historians wrote long after Ghassan had ceased to exist, and though each used all written and oral sources available, their results sometimes *differ radically*. [....] Unfortunately, little is known about Ghassanid society, in al-Harith's time, or for that matter, in any other time, since most of the clans and tribes were nomadic, with no permanent capital other than an encampment at Jabiya, south of Damascus.
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Is this page a propaganda page meant to assert the Arab authority over Palestine??? Juanita 23:41, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
