الجغرافية التاريخية لشبه الجزيرة العربية من خلال المصادر الجغرافية في العصر العباسي

Abstract

This current study concerns itself with the Jews' economic activity in Hijaz prior to Islam because of the importance of this aspect, especially for understanding the decisive situation which Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) took against those Jews. This decision,which eventually led to the Jew's evacuation from their positions and abolishing their communities. As the economic factor has an equal importance to the religious factor in the dispute that broke out between the