Arab Nations

… at that juncture however, like a meteorite from the blue, there came into the world a new religion, a religion primarily of power and not of love, a militant fanaticism, appealing partly to the evil which lies in men, and only partly to the good. Edward Gibbon ‘History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al- Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim or Muhammad 570AD – 632AD

The Arabs had languished in poverty and contempt, till Mohammed breathed into those savage hordes the soul of enthusiasm. There broke out among the nations of Asia that mighty conflagration whose flames were scattered over the terrified globe by the sons of the desert, guided by their new prophet... Gibbon Onward and still onward like swarms from the hive, or flights of locusts darkening the land, tribe after tribe issued forth and hastening northward spread in great masses to the east and to the west. Sir William Muir The Persian Empire soon attracted the arms of ‘these locusts’ as the swarms of hungry Saracens were not inaptly called. Edward Upham

Locust = “Arbeh” in Hebrew, Arabic