Antiquity
Expulsion of Jews from Khaybar and the Hejaz by caliph Omar
v. 640·Hedjaz
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Caliph Omar brought an end to the regime established after the conquest of Khaybar. Invoking a saying attributed to Muhammad according to which two religions could not coexist on the peninsula, he ordered the removal of the Jewish and Christian communities from the Hedjaz; the tenant farmers of Khaybar and Fadak were compensated, then displaced to Syria and Mesopotamia.
The episode closed a Jewish presence in northern Arabia attested for several centuries by epigraphy and pre-Islamic poetry. The communities of Yemen, however, were not affected and would endure until the middle of the twentieth century.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Expulsion
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Arabie saoudite
al-Baladhuri, *Futuh al-Buldan* ; al-Tabari, *Ta'rikh al-rusul wa-l-muluk* ; Gordon Newby, *A History of the Jews of Arabia*.