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This was followed by the 2001 book by Morey called The Islamic Invasion: Confronting the World's Fastest-Growing Religion. Morey argued that "Allah" was a moon god in pre-Islamic Arabic mythology, and pointed to Islam's use of a lunar calendar and the use of moon imagery in Islam as support. [5]
In 2003 Pat Robertson stated, "The struggle is whether Hubal, the Moon God of Mecca, known as Allah, is supreme, or whether the Judeo-Christian Jehovah God of the Bible is Supreme." [25] Farzana Hassan sees these claims as an extension of longstanding Christian evangelical beliefs that Islam is "pagan" and that Muhammad was an impostor and ...
Islamic tradition 'Amm 'Amm is the moon god of Qataban. [3] His attributes include the lightning bolts. [3] Amm is served by the judge-god Anbay and has the goddess Athirat as his consort. [4] [5] Qatabanians are also known as Banu Amm, or "children of Amm". Attested [a] 'Ammi'anas 'Ammi'anas is a god worshipped by the Khawlan.
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the most common word to represent God, [57] and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith. [12] "He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind."
[28] [29] The word Allah (from the Arabic al-ilah meaning "the god") [30] may have been used as a title rather than a name. [31] [32] [33] The concept of Allah may have been vague in the Meccan religion. [34] According to Islamic sources, Meccans and their neighbors believed that the goddesses Al-lāt, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt were the daughters ...
One of the better known and most controversial assertions Morey made about Islam is that God in Islam is in origin the "moon god" Hubal, a deity worshipped at the Kaaba in pre-Islamic Arabia." [ 18 ] Morey argues that the same name of God of Islam, Arabic Allah , was an epithet of Hubal's in pre-Islamic Mecca.
Many sources there aren't talking about Allah as a moon god, but significance of moon in the Islamic calendar, usage of moon as a symbol in Muslim cultures etc. This article should probably only have three sections: the original theory/hoax of Allah as a moon god, Muslim responses to it, and scholarly views.VR talk 00:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
The star and crescent moon was commonly associated with the ... The number 1 symbolizes the Shahada of Muslims: "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the ...