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2. Kaaba - Wikipedia

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   In her book Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that the Kaaba was officially dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity, and contained 360 idols which probably represented the days of the year. [27] However, by the time of Muhammad's era, it seems that the Kaaba was venerated as the temple of Allah, the High God.

3. Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia - Wikipedia

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   Some Islamic rituals, including processions around the Kaaba and between the hills of al-Safa and Marwa, as well as the salutation "we are here, O Allah, we are here" repeated on approaching the Kaaba are believed to have antedated Islam. [133]

4. Book of Idols - Wikipedia

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   The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām), written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), is the most popular of the Islamic-era works about the gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions. [1] The book portrays pre-Islamic Arabian religion as predominantly polytheistic and guilty of idol worship (idolatry) before the coming of ...

5. Black Stone - Wikipedia

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   The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.

6. Mu'allaqat - Wikipedia

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   No trace of this story is found in early sources about Mecca or the customs of pre-Islamic Arabia. There are records of other items being hung in the Kaaba: a Meccan was reported to have hung a spoil of battle on the Kaaba (Ibn Hisham, ed. Wiistenfeld, p. 431), and an important document may have been deposited there (ibid. p. 230). A passage of ...

7. List of pre-Islamic Arabian deities - Wikipedia

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   Isaf and Na'ila are a pair of deities, a god and a goddess, whose cult was centered near the Well of Zamzam. Islamic tradition gave an origin story to their cult images; a couple who were petrified by Allah as they fornicated inside the Kaaba. Attested: Al-Jalsad Al-Jalsad is a god worshipped by the Kindah in Hadhramawt. Attested: Jihar

8. Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia circle the Kaaba ahead of ...

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   Masses of Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi city of Mecca on Thursday circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, a day before heading to the nearby desert area of Mina to officially open the Hajj, the ...

9. Kaabas - Wikipedia

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   Kaaba of al-Lat, worshipped by the Thaqif tribe [3] Kaaba of Dhu al-Khalasa, worshipped by the Daws tribe [4] [5] Kaaba Najran, worshipped by the inhabitants of Najran before their conversion to Christianity [6] Yemeni Kaaba, a church built by the Aksumite garrison in Yemen to rival the Kaaba of Mecca [7] [b]