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The Ḥimyarite Kingdom (see wikipedia) in Yemen was the major power on the Arabian peninsula (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE) up to the time of the coming of Islam.The Arab tribes living on the Arabian peninsula were generally “vassals” or “clients” of either the Byzantine Empire (Constantinople) or of the Sasanian Empire (Iran) depending on which empire was more powerful at the time and gave them better “retainer fees” for their loyalty. This was known at the Foederati system (see wikipedia) in the Byzantine Empire.

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There was a Jewish kingdom to the south:Himyarite Kingdom: “(Arabic: مملكة حِمْيَر‎, Mamlakat Ḥimyar, Musnad: , Hebrew: ממלכת חִמְיָר‎) (fl. 110 BCE–520s CE)…” and “The Himyarite kings appear to have abandoned polytheism and converted to Judaism around the year 380”Religious cultureDuring this period, references to pagan gods disappeared from royal inscriptions and texts on public buildings, and were replaced by references to a single deity. Inscriptions in the Sabean language, and sometimes Hebrew, called this deity Rahman (the Merciful), “Lord of the Heavens and Earth,” the “God of Israel” and “Lord of the Jews.” Prayers invoking Rahman's blessings on the “people of Israel” often ended with the Hebrew words shalom and amen. [16]There is evidence that the solar goddess Shams was especially favoured in Himyar, being the national goddess and possibly an ancestral deity.[17][18][19][20]Most of Arabia converted to Judaism, also, some by force.Jewish tribes of Arabia: “The Jewish tribes of Arabia were ethnic groups professing the Jewish faith that inhabited the Arabian Peninsula before and during the advent of Islam. It is not always clear whether they were originally Israelite in ancestry, genealogically Arab tribes that converted to Judaism, or a mixture of both. In Islamic tradition the Jewish tribes of the Hejaz were seen as the offspring of the ancient Israelites.[1] According to Muslim sources, they spoke a language other than Arabic, which Al-Tabari claims was Persian. This implies they were connected to the major Jewish center in Babylon.[2] Certain Jewish traditions record the existence of nomadic tribes such as the Rechabites that converted to Judaism in antiquity.”History of the Jews in Saudi Arabia: “Immigration to the Arabian Peninsula began in earnest in the 2nd century CE, and by the 6th and 7th centuries there was a considerable Jewish population in Hejaz, mostly in and around Medina, in part because of the embrace of Judaism by such leaders as Dhu Nuwas (who was very aggressive about converting his subjects to Judaism…”Before Islam: When Saudi Arabia was a Jewish kingdomOne of the key, but often forgotten, players in Arabia at the time was the kingdom of Himyar.Established around the 2nd century CE, by the 4th century it had become a regional power. Headquartered in what is today Yemen, Himyar had conquered neighboring states, including the ancient kingdom of Sheba (whose legendary queen features in a biblical meeting with Solomon).In a recent article titled “What kind of Judaism in Arabia?” Christian Robin, a French epigraphist and historian who also leads the expedition at Bir Hima, says most scholars now agree that, around 380 CE, the elites of the kingdom of Himyar converted to some form of Judaism.I would not be certain the character in this question has historicity - I don’t see any - so the faith of putative ancestors is hypothetical. However, for the century or two before Islam, Judaism was the most likely faith.Before that, it was most likely hellenised, local gods. As an example, there is this:Qos (deity): “Qos (Hebrew קוס/קוש‎),[1] also Qōs, Qaus, Koze) was the national god of the Edomites.[2] He was the Idumean rival of Yahweh, and structurally parallel to him. Thus ‘Benqos’ (son of Qōs) parallels the Hebrew ‘Beniyahu’ (son of Yahweh).[3] The name occurs only once in the Old Testament (if we exclude a possible allusion in an otherwise corrupted text in the Book of Proverbs[4]) in the Book of Ezra as an element in a personal name, Barqos ('Qōs gleamed forth'),[5] referring to the 'father' of a family or clan of perhaps Edomite/Idumaean nĕtînîm or temple helpers returning from the Babylonian exile.[6] The noun frequently appears combined with names on documents recovered from excavations in Elephantine, where a mixed population of Arabs, Jews and Idumeans lived under the protection of a Persian-Mesopotamian garrison.”The worship of Qōs appears to originally have been located in the Hisma area of southern Jordan and north Arabia, where a mountain, Jabal al-Qaus, still bears that name.[6] He entered the Edomite pantheon as early as the 8th century b.c. M. Rose speculates that, prior to Qōs's advent, Edom worshipped Yahweh — a connection going back the early Egyptian references to YWH in the land of the Shasu[12] — and the former then overlaid the latter and assumed supremacy there when the Idumeans lost their autonomy under Persian rule, perhaps compensating for the destruction of national independence, a mechanism similar to that of the strengthening of Yahweh worship after the fall of the Jewish kingdom.[6] Qōs is described as a “King”, is associated with light, and defined as “mighty”. His works are described as ones where he “adorns, avenges, blesses, chooses(?) gives.”[3]Costobarus I, whose name meant "Qōs is mighty"[11] was a native Idumean descended from a priestly family attached to this cult.[13] After Herod, had placed him in command over (στρατηγὀς) Idumea, Costobarus, supported by Cleopatra, eventually tried to prise the kingdom from Herod's Judea. In order to garner local support for his defection, he revived the old cult of Qōs, perhaps to get Idumea's rural population, still attached to its traditional gods, to back him.[14] The name recurs in the Nabataean language in an inscription at Khirbat al-Tannur.where he is represented flanked by bulls, seated on a throne while wielding in his left hand a multi-pronged thunderbolt, suggestive of a function as a weather god.[11] He is also on an altar in Idumean Mamre.[14]The deity's name was used as the theophoric element in many Idumean names,[15] including the names of the Edomite kings Qōs-malaku, a tributary of Tiglath-Pileser III and Qōs-gabar[16] a tributary of Esarhaddon.[17]Also: Quzah: “Quzah is a Pre-Islamic Arabic god of weather,[1] worshiped by the people of Muzdalifah. The pre-Islamic rite of the Ifada celebrated after the autumnal equinox was performed facing the direction of Quzah's sanctuary.[2][3] A lasting reference to Quzah, is the Arabic qaws Quzah, "Bow of the God Quzah", which became the Arabic term for rainbow.[4]”This is how I wrote: What was the religion of Arabic people when Jesus was born?