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Podcast final cover art
[MAP] My Divisions of Arabia
[MAP] Arabian tectonic plate
Podcast draft cover art
[MAP] Cultivable land in Arabia (History of The Arabs - Philip K. Hitti)
Terrace farms in Yemen
Podcast cover art draft
Podcast cover art draft
[MAP] Satellite Image of the Arabian Peninsula
Terrace farms in Yemen
[MAP] 'Range' of the Arabs c. 63 B.C. (Arabs and Empire Before Islam - Greg Fisher)
[MAP] Arabia and surrounding regions (Arabia and the Arabs - Robert G Hoyland)
[MAP] Arabia, its geographical features and major settlements (The Early Islamic Conquests - Fred M. Donner)
[MAP] Arabia (The War of the Three Gods Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam - Peter Crawford)
[MAP] The Near East as viewed from the Balkans (Fortune Magazine 1951 - Richard E. Harrison)
[MAP] The Near East, anything below the 200mm rainfall line is considered desert (Greg Fisher - Between Empires)
[MAP] Topography of the Mediterranean and Near East (The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol.1)
Camel standing near Desert Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Camel & Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Camel herd grazing (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Camel pulling a cart (Courtesy of Khalid Mahmood)
Landscape image showing the Desert Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Closeup of a friendly camel's face (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Nefud Desert Landscape (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Camel herd grazing in the Nefud Desert (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Qasr Al Sarab, on the Eastern outskirts of the Empty Quarter (Courtesy of Flickr account Panorama)
Nejd Landscape (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
The Empty Quarter (Courtesy of Land Rover MENA)
Wadi in the Nejd (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Exposed Desert Shrub (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)
Arabian Gazelles (Courtesy of Mike Scott)
Arabian Leopard (Courtesy of Land Rover Our Planet)
Arabian Oryx (Courtesy of Sharon Mollerus)
Asiatic Cheetah, now extinct in Arabia (Courtesy of Behnam Ghorbani)
[MAP] Range of the Cheetah
Cheetah (Courtesy of Shankar S.)
Desert Leopard (Courtesy of Yossi Aud)
Nubian Ibex (Courtesy of Marcel Holyoak)
[MAP] Caravan Trade Routes in Arabia (Rome's Eastern Trade - Gary K. Young)
[MAP] Caravan Trade Routes in the Fertile Crescent (Rome's Eastern Trade - Gary K. Young)
[MAP] Caravan Trade Routes in Northern Arabia (Rome's Eastern Trade - Gary K. Young)
[MAP] East Arabia, ancient trade routes (Arabia and the Arabs - Robert G Hoyland)
[MAP] Maritime Trade Routes in the Indian Ocean in Roman times (Rome's Eastern Trade - Gary K. Young)
[MAP] The Ancient Network of Perfume and Incense Trade Routes
[MAP] Trade Routes of Ancient World
[MAP] Trade on the Arabian Sea
Genealogy from Muhammed to Adnan
Tracing Muhammad's Lineage (Muhammad; His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings)
The Tribe and Clans of Quraysh
Muhammed's Relatives (The Venture of Islam Vol.1 - Marshall Hodgson)
Quraysh (Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World)
[MAP] The (Caravan) Journey of the Winter and the Summer
[MAP] Pre-Islamic Arabia + principal trade routes (Muhammad, Prophet and Statesman - William Montgomery Watt)
[MAP] Roman Provinces in the Levant (Witnesses to a World Crisis - James Howard-Johnston)
The Well of Zamzam
[MAP] Arabia (Muhammad; His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings)
[MAP] Arabia - People, Places, Routes, & Tribes (History of The Arabs - Philip K. Hitti)
[MAP] Towns & tribes in Arabia in the time of Muhammed (The Venture of Islam Vol.1 - Marshall Hodgson)
[MAP] Tribal Arabia (The Early Islamic Conquests - Fred M. Donner)
[MAP] Arabia c. 600 C.E. (Muhammad and the Believers - Fred Donner)
[MAP] The world in 500 C.E. (Wikimedia Commons)
[MAP] World c. 565 A.D. (Talessman from the English Wikipedia)
[MAP] The central Mediterranean through India, c. 600 C.E. (The Venture of Islam Vol.1 - Marshall Hodgson)
[MAP] Justinian's Expansion of the Byzantine Empire
[MAP] The Byzantine Empire 555 A.D. (Wikimedia Commons)
[MAP] The Political Geography of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern World c. 575 A.D. (The New Cambridge History of Islam - Vol.1)
[MAP] Sassanid and Byzantine Empires c. 565 C.E. (Muhammad and the Believers - Fred Donner)
[MAP] Sassanid Empire c. 600 (The War of the Three Gods Romans, Persians, and the Rise of Islam - Peter Crawford)
Relief in the West of Iran showing Sassanid Cavalry/Cataphracts
Historical re-enactment of a Sassanid-era cataphract
Ancient Ka'aba Conceptual CGI #1
Ancient Ka'aba Conceptual CGI #2
Ancient Ka'aba Conceptual CGI #3
The lineage of Muhammed & some related families (Muhammad - Maxime Robinson)
The groupings of clans that worked on each wall (Muhammad; His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings)
Caption reads: "Rare photo of the sanctuary taken in 1941, rainfall levels reaching the black stone, while pilgrims perform tawaf (circumambulation) swimming.
Mountain that the cave is located in, known today as Jebel-al-Nour, the Mountain of Light
Location of ghar Hira on Jebel al Nour
People climbing up the Mountain of light in order to reach the cave
Mountain of Light
Khadija bint Khuwaylid
Ali ibn Abi-Talib
Abu-Bakr ibn Abi-Quhaffa
Uthman ibn 'Affan
Bilal ibn Rabah
Abu-Lahab ibn Abd-al-Muttalib
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
Abu-Jahl
Abu-Sufyan ibn Harb
Umayya ibn Khalaf
Hamza ibn Abd-al-Muttalib
Utba ibn Rabi'ah
