an interesting question.

ok Al Bedawi i just collected some of your posts regarding this matter.

and i can see a point there that not a "very" proper Name for this Forum to call it Islamic world.

i already gave my opinion about this and you misunderstood me i think.

I didnt say that Arabs had nothing before Islam, off course they did for a very long time they have empires and communites.

what i meant is that they are not as significant as the empires they had After islam.

well i think we may be need to change it to a more proper name and not calling it as per lanuage then we will need many other forum for others languages.

well it is not Islamic Forum it is called Islamic World Forum, and Islamic world has alot of non islamic comunites.

well i thought that it is the most proper so far.

but we may find a More proper one than this , something like

Middel East and North African Forum?

actully there was an Arabic Christan empire,

this is from Britannica.

Arabian kingdom prominent as a Byzantine ally (symmachos) in the 6th century AD. From its strategic location in portions of modern Syria, Jordan,and Israel, it protected the spice trade route from the south of the ArabianPeninsula and acted as a buffer against the desert Bedouin.

The Ghass�nid king al-Ḥ�rith ibn Jabalah (reigned 529�569) supported the Byzantines against S�s�nian Persia and was given the title patricius in 529 by the emperor Justinian. Al-Ḥ�rith was a Monophysite Christian; he helped to revive the Syrian Monophysite Church and supported Monophysite development despite the disapproval of Orthodox Byzantium. Subsequent Byzantine distrust of such religious unorthodoxybrought down his successors, al-Mundhir (reigned 569�582) and Nuʿm�n.

The Ghass�nids, who had successfully opposed the Persian-oriented Lakhmids of al-Ḥ�rah, prospered economically and engaged in much religious and public building; they also patronized the arts and at one time entertained the poets N�bighah adh-Dhuby�n� and Ḥass�n ibn Th�bit at their courts. Ghass�n remained a Byzantine vassal state until its rulers were overthrown by the Muslims in the 7th century.
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this from wkipedia

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

to Mortaza  its not that hard to make a new thread in Modern History Forum about that Austrain/Turkish conflict.

If you intrested Al-bedwi all arab coroporate to establish arabic fourm

in my opinion islamic fourm is enough for us

we can see our history in our places (midlle east).

accept my best regards

then we keep the name Islamic world and add middel east and North africa.

it would be something like this

Islamic World, M.East and N.Africa Forum

by that it will cover everything i guess

Actully Arabs can be in more than one Forum too, since Arabs Conquered from Spain to North india.

the aim for the Forums in general is to classify the more commone History together

and why cant we have Iranians and Turkish in this Forum?

Iranians ruled some Arabian lands before Islam, Arabs ruled Iranian lands After islam and Turkish ruled some Arabic lands too for many years.

plus the First 200 years of Islam was mainly Under Arabic rule so i think we as Arabs has more to do with rise of Islam than anybody else.

and by adding Middle East and North Africa is just to give a place to the History between the period between the end of The Ancient period and the Rise of islam.

so if we consider the Ancient period ends at year 0 AD then we have more than 600 years until Islam start dominating the region. and in that 600 years there were kingdom in Arabia and North Africa which are not totally part of the romans nor part of the persians. so Adding this part we included almost all Historical periods in the region and with the other Forums we included the Rest of the World History.

so i think calling this forum " Islamic World, Middle East and North Africa" is the Most proper and complete name.

  Islamic Empires

Islamic Empires from the rise of Islam to the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Yes, open a from like desert Empires or whatever.

Than we will have our peace back.

or whatever, but I hope you have enough article to full that from!

So at least we can learn, what are the arabs doing before islam.

A turk

Can a Turk learn what were the arabs doing before Islam? Or what you want is just open a forum, and that all?

You should feed that forum with articles.