The Historical Origins of the Jewish presence in the Arabian Gulf in the modern era | ||
| Journal of Literature Ink | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 7, May 2018, Pages 251-288 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Isam Khaliel Muhammad; Wisam Husain Abdul Raqak | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper tackles the history of the Jewish minority in the Arab Gulf. The writers introduced preface which included the history of the Jews in the Arab peninsula in the pre-Islamic period and their post-Islamic immigrations until the end of twelfth century. History didn’t mention any existence of the Jews in the region of Arab Gulf because of their immigration to India and Persia for peaceful, social, and economic reasons. History kept silent until the beginning of the sixteenth century where mentioning the Jewish existence in the Arab Gulf has been revived with the foundation of the Portuguese Empire in the East after discovering the Cape of Good Hope in 1498, which led to a re-interest in the area by the European countries and great groups of the European travelers, merchants, and those who work in Portuguese campaigns that had a number of Jews. The paper deals with the Jewish minority in the Arab Gulf in the modern age, and displays its economic activities, its political role, and its social life and relationship with the citizens, the governing local authorities and the occupying foreign authorities. | ||
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