Monotheism was born in Arabia

There are indications that allow to deduce that it was precisely in the lands of the heart of Arabia, Al Hejaz, the Asir and neighboring Nejd, that the main monotheistic religions of the world began. 
Certain documentary and toponymic data lead us to believe that it was in these countries that the ancient Hebrew-Israelite religious currents and their historical derivatives, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the ancient religion of Ethiopia originated.
The generally accepted belief holds that the events described in the biblical accounts occurred in the lands of the Near East, in the country called Palestine or Israel. In the same way it is usually accepted that the primitive city of Jerusalem, where King David and Solomon lived, whose age would be over 3,000 years, is the same population that was recognized as such during the Roman era, in later times and until the day from today.
Dissenting opinions have appeared lately on this subject.
Since the late twentieth century some authors noticed contradictions between the sites mentioned in the Jewish and Christian sacred books and the contemporary toponymy of Palestine and Israel
At the same time, certain researchers, in particular the Lebanese academic Kamal Salibi, found curious similarities between the names of the biblical sites of the Solomonic period and the geographic nomenclature of southwestern and central Arabia.
The pages that follow synthetically and partially expose some of the ideas exposed by Salibi, recently deceased, in his multiple publications and that lately has spread on his blog on the Internet.
The south-western and central region of Arabia, which includes Al Hejaz, the Assir and the Nejd, is vertebrated to the west by the imposing mountain escarpment of As-Surat. These territories extend along the western edge of Arabia, between Yemen and Tabuk. There, according to Salibi, would be located the native country of the biblical patriarchs.
The hypothesis is based on the repeated inconsistencies of the various Jewish and Christian religious books when referring to the geographical landscapes traversed by the prophets and the lack of archaeological evidence in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Egypt that could confirm them.
Salibi and other authors came to the controversial conclusion that the biblical land of Abraham, David and Solomon was Arabia, and arrived at this hypothesis with different methods of analysis and research. In the same way they considered that the ancient city of Jerusalem, the one mentioned in the books, would also have been located in the Arabian peninsula.
Jerusalem is a Judeo-Christian name that refers to a city that has played a leading role in the religious history of the peoples of the Near East. According to some authors it means house of peace (jeru salem) or house of salem (god of the setting sun in Semitic religions). Another less orthodox interpretation holds that this toponymy can come from Yeru Shulaym, a compound word that it calls two ancient sites of Arabia (the Yeru and the Suleyman) .31 All these possible etymologies introduce uncertainties about the origin and location of the sacred city of religions monotheists.
According to Salibi, the toponymy of the Hebrew Bible refers to identifiable sites with place names in Arabia but which, in later times, would have to be reinterpreted as being located in Palestine, where centuries later the Hasmonean kingdom founded by Simon Maccabaeus would be established (last of the Maccabees) in the second century BC
A central proposition of the theory is that the geographical feature known as Jordan, which is generally taken as the Jordan River, would actually refer to the impressive escarpment of Western Arabia, the As Surat or Sarawat mountains. The area of ​​ancient Israel would be identified with the territories on both sides of the southern section of the escarpment, that is, the south of the Hejaz and the Asir, from Taif to the border with Yemen in the vicinity of the present cities of Abha and Khamis Mushayt. .
Salibi accepts that Palestine was inhabited by Hebrew-speakers, or that they spoke a language similar to Hebrew, from very early times, but considers that these peoples were not the same as those who arrived in that area in the middle of the first millennium a.e.c ..
Note: K. Salibi wrote in his blog: Zion was the city of David and subsequently the capital of Solomon and the kings of Judah who succeeded him, located in the mountainous heights of Qa'wat Siyan in the vicinity of Jerusalem, the Heights of Rijal Alma, to the south of the elevations that surround the current city of Abha. Jerusalem was located adjacent to this Zion in a northerly direction "Reference: http: // kamalsalibi. blogspot.com/2010/07/sundial-experiments-in-abha-saudi.html