Munzir ibn Sawa (Arabic: ٱلْمُنْذِر ٱبْن سَاوَىٰ, romanized: al-Munzir-bn-Sāwá) was the governor of the Persian Sasanian Empire of historical Bahrain, the eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula opposite of Tihamah.
Munzir was a prominent Arab chief and Tabi'un in the 7th century who hailed from the Banu Tamim tribe.
[1] He was the Persian governor of lands which included modern Bahrain, Eastern part of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South Iraq, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and Oman during the age of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Before Islam, the inhabitants of the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula worshipped gods including Awal.
Muhammad sent his first envoy Al-Ala'a Al-Hadrami to Munzir ibn Sawa Al-Tamimi, the ruler of Bahrain, which in those days, extended the coast from Basrah in Iraq to the south of Qatar, including al-Hasa, Kuwait, Bahrain, the UAE & Oman, in the year 628, inviting him to Islam.