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Balaw is a god worshipped in the kingdom of Awsan alongside Wadd. Attested: Basamum: Basamum is a god worshipped in South Arabia whose name may be derived from Arabic basam, or balsam, a medicinal plant, indicating that he may be associated with healing or health. [13] [14] One ancient text relates how Basamum cured two wild goats/ibexes. [13 ...
Before conversion to Christianity, the Aksumites followed a polytheistic religion that was similar to that of Southern Arabia. The lunar god Hawbas was worshiped in South Arabia and Aksum. [93] The god Astar, a sky-deity was related to that of 'Attar, was also worshipped in Aksum. [94] The god Almaqah was worshiped at Hawulti-Melazo. [95]
It is a semi-circular wall opposite, but not connected to, the north-west wall of the Kaaba. It is 1.31 m (4 ft 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in height and 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in width, and is composed of white marble. The space between the hatīm and the Kaaba was originally part of the Kaaba, and is thus not entered during the tawaf.
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.
These inscriptions refer to God with the use of terms like Allāh, al-Ilāh (ʾl-ʾlh), and Rabb ("Lord"). The uncontracted form Al-Ilāh/ ʾl-ʾlh is thought to have among Christians as an isomorphism or calque for the Greek expression ho theos , which is how the Hebrew ʾĕlōhîm is rendered in the Septuagint . [ 28 ]
Abu Ghabshan (Arabic: أبو غبشان), real name Salim ibn 'Amr al-Khuza'i was a custodian of the Kaaba during pre-Islamic Arabia. He was from the Banu Khuza'ah tribe that was ruling Mecca at the time. Abu Ghabshan held the keys to the Kaaba before they were passed on to the Quraysh.
According to Al-Azraqi, Hubal was the primary deity housed in the Kaaba of Mecca before the time of Muhammad. Similarly, Al-Kalbi identifies Hubal as the main god of the Quraysh . Archaeologically, just one Nabataean inscription mentions 'Hubal', as an epithet for the god Dushara .
In Arabian mythology, Hubal (Arabic: هُبَل) was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca. The god's icon was a human figure believed to control acts of divination, which was performed by tossing arrows before the statue. The direction in which the arrows pointed answered questions asked to Hubal.