Christian Ghassanid king al-Harith ibn Jabalah, who purportedly ruled in the 6th century AD, predating the Muslim conquest in the following century By John Mason, Arab America/Contributing Writer Some of the first Arab tribal converts to the then-new religion in the Middle East–Christianity–were called Ghassanids. They were descendants of an Arabian peninsula tribal grouping, the Kahlani … Continue reading Ghassanids: A Major Arab Tribal Conversion to Early Christianity