[Jooyandeh]

این‌که ما گفتیم «سرزمین عرب» در آن دوران سرزمین بسیار وسیعی را شامل می‌شده، ظاهراً‌ در ویکیپدیا هم تصدیق شده است:

Arabia Petraea

Arabia Petraea, also called Provincia Arabia or simply
Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire
beginning in the second century; it consisted of the
former Nabataean kingdom in modern Jordan, southern
modern Syria, the Sinai Peninsula and northwestern Saudi
Arabia. Its capital was Petra. It was bordered on the north
by Syria, on the west by Iudaea and Aegyptus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabia_Petraea

این نوشتار را نیز توصیه می‌کنیم:

The Hajj is purely of pagan origin
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-myths-ha...origin.htm