#pre-islamic-arabia
Chapter 4
A World Waiting for Light
The religious state of the world before Islam: how idol worship crept into Makkah, the mixed-up beliefs, the truth-seekers (the hunafa), how other faiths had drifted, and a world waiting for dawn.
Chapter 3Why We Tell This Story, and the World Before It
What the word Seerah means, why we learn the Prophet's story, how we know it, and the world of old Arabia: the lost Arabs, the branches of Qahtan and Adnan, and the line of Ibrahim and Ismail.