The stories and myths in Assyrian and
Sumerian mythologies were transformed into Jewish and Islamic sanctified stories.
These legends emerged in current Iraq (
Assyria, Babylon and Ur) before 3500 BC or around 4000 years before the era of Islam.
The stories spread and moved into Jewish religious books, and deployed from Iraq to Palestine and then to Mecca, Medinah, Yemen and the Mashreq (North Africa) countries, all the way to most Africa, Indonesia….
There was presence of many foreign immigrants in the Arabian Peninsula. For example, the young Iraqi from Mosul who served water and grapes to the Prophet Muhammad at Taif, as its inhabitants were stoning Muhammad, and the Persian Salman, Suhaib and Bilal the Abyssinian (Current Ethiopia)…