Ancestors of the ancient Arabs

This book addresses doubts raised by some Orientalists in the nineteenth century regarding the genealogies of Arabs before Islam. These claimed that Arabs only attributed their lineage to their mothers, and that the ancient Arab family had lost its paternity, each having multiple wives as mothers. In doing so, they criticized the entire chain of genealogies transmitted and preserved in the books of genealogists, and attributed them to the "Tawamiyya," which entails a savage pattern of lineage to animals and plants worshiped and attributed to instead of the true fathers. The author sees that the main motive for those who say this is their lack of confidence in Arab historians, and their pursuit of strange traces that cannot be relied upon for sound induction. Here, George Zion provides a coherent and comprehensive study that pushes forward rational argumentation and scientific evidence to refute the hypotheses made by those claiming Arab matriarchy and Tawamiyya, reaching to prove what is established about the correctness of the "genealogies of the ancient Arabs."