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Growing Up With The Bedouin. The Bedouin women would go to the wealthy streets in a hunt for a child to foster. They were paid no money but they would expect a gift when they returned the child. This is why they went to the wealthy houses. The foster mother of Muhammed was a woman call Halimah. They lived in the desert, with her own people. They were constantly on the move as this is the life of a Nomad. They lived harsh but simple lives and had hardly any pesonal possesions. He shared a tent with the women and children. He would have learned many things like hospitality towards strangers, the unwealthy and diseased, widows and orphans.
Camel Management Muhammad was part of a powerful tribe called the Quraysh tribe. He was not part of a very wealthy family. His widowed mother only had 5 camels and 1 slave. He had to learn about trade. He was taught by his uncle Abu Talib. Before young boys could care for camels they had to train with sheep and goats. Camels were everything in Arab life. If a man had no camel he wasn't a warrior nor a merchant. A camel could pay off the guilt of a murder or buy a wife. If you had no camel you were a nobody.
Clans and Tribes Nobody could rule over the Arabian tribes. There were no judges or law courts. Instead there were familys clans and tribes. Around 100 familys made a clan. But above the clan was the tribe. The clans went by a rule or custom known as the blood fued. This meant that if someone killed someone in your clan you were to kill someone in the murderers clan, but Muhammed shows that some people did not like this system.
Religions Through the caravan trade, pagan Arabs met Christians and Jews who lives in Syrnia, Egypt and Abyssinia. Muhammads uncle, Abu Talib, had trading links with the Christians of Abyssinia. Many pagan Arabs knew about Jewish beliefs and holy sites.
The Significance of Poetry The Arab world was crammed full of poets. The people of Arabia loved to listen to stories in verse. Most poets couldn't or did not read or write. Huge crowds would gather to listen to the verses of beauty recited by these amazing poetic geniuses. The poets wrote verses of bravery, camels, human beauty, and the beauty of the world around them
