>>14297888>Pre islamic arabic was a shithole completely ignored by romans, to the point they couldnt even bother to easily conquer it (biggest mistake in history). Northern Arabian tribes were literally allied with the Byzantine Romans, and almost exclusively made up the Byzantine foederati.
Go back earlier, and the Roman Empire proper conquered the Nabatean Kingdom spanning Northwest Arabia and the Southeast Levant, and made it their Arabia Petraea (Arabia Province).
>When the war against the Mecca Pagans took place, byzantines were busy surviving against the persiansYeah, including using Arab buffer states like the Ghassanids. It also doesn't change the fact that the pagans and Jews in Medina had decided to ally with the Byzantines too, going back on their pledge of allegiance to the unitary leadership.
