الكهنة قبل الإسلام و آثارهم الاقتصادية

Abstract EN

Priests occupy a distinctive place in the life of Arbefore Islam, and due to the importance of religious life, Arare distinguished by their faith and great sanctity towards the gods.

Therefore, he placed himself, his body, his family and all his possessions under the protection of the gods, believing that the gods would protect him.

Therefore, it can be said that the role of priests arose from here believing that priests are the means of communication between people and God.

And for this reason, the priests took advantage of some things by claiming to know the unseen and predicting the future, and their control over the jinn, so people did not do anything except by referring to the priests.

Accordingly, the priests sought to exploit the people and maintain their control over religious, economic, and political matters and most of them held high positions in the state that reached the level of king and release themselves from taxes, and as a result of their control over religious temples, they obtained a lot of money that made them very wealthy, which gave them the role of controlling economic matters in the country.

We can say that priests played a prominent role in controlling the economic system of the Arab people, even some kings began to accept their advices to construct dams or build walls and even to pave road, In addition to a large number of people resorting to them for the purpose of lending them money, which had a great impact on the life of the Aroutside and inside the Arabian Peninsula, so that some Persian and Roman kings depended on them for the purpose of organizing their lives