I believe Arabia holds many secrets that could illuminate our understanding of both the Bible and Qur'an.
What do you know about the myths and legends of early Arabia?
Which tribes and peoples occupied the Arabian Peninsula?
Do place names give hints as to the earliest settled occupants?
Was Mount Sinai in Arabia?
'Yemen was the name of the southern portion of Arabia, but the Greeks called it Happy Arabia, on account of the fertility. Saba was the name of a city there of great importance in early times. In that region Joktan, the mythical great-grandson of Noah's son Shem, became father of a people living in rich and populous cities of commercial importance. A thousand years before Christ, the rich king King Solomon was reigning at Jerusalem, and wondrous were the stories told about him, - stories that travellers slowly carried along the shores of the Red Sea, so tradition asserts, until they got quite down to the Indian Ocean, where they reached the ears of Balkis, the queen of Saba*. [*The capital of Yemen, the seat of the Himyaritic dynasty to which the queen of Saba is said to have belonged, was Mareb, two days' journey northeast of a city called Sana, and great numbers of finely cut stones, inscriptions, coins, and jewels still give evidence that a city of importance once stood there. Balkis is represented to have been descended from one Afrikis, who according to tradition, gathered the remnants of the Amalekites after Joshua overthrew that people, and led them to the other side of the Red Sea, where they multiplied and were known from their barbarous dialect as Berbers.'] Her people were Sabeans; they stood on their rich wadies and on their lonely sands, and gazed up to heaven in wonder, as the stars, the sun, and the moon shone down upon them, and they thought that such brights lights must be gods. Then they bowed their heads and worshipped the host of heaven.' [The Saracens, Arthur Gilman]