Sa'd (Arabic: سعد) was a god of fortune in pre-Islamic Arabia revered by the Banu Kinanah tribe. His cult image was a tall stone and was situated in the...

Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. A rarer form, 'ila, represents...

Ruḍāʾ is a deity that was of paramount importance in the Arab pantheon of gods worshipped by the North Arabian tribes of pre-Islamic Arabia. He is first...

Palmyra is an example, attested as a messenger of Bel but existing as a deity separate to Bel/Marduk. Similarly, Zeus Belus mentioned by Sanchuniathon...

gods, with every tribe and kingdom having their particular protective deities. However, there were also gods common for all Arabs, and the trinity of...

that of Arab polytheism, which was based on the veneration of various deities and spirits, such as the god Hubal and the goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā,...

month as the mission of Khalid ibn al-Walid to destroy al-Uzza and the Suwa, Sa‘d bin Zaid al-Ashhali was sent with 20 horsemen to Al-Mashallal to destroy...

pre-Islamic Arabian deity and given name that means "elevated". Personal names incorporating the name Manaf such as "Abd Manaf" show that the deity was widespread...

of the goddess Al-Lat, and that he assembled in the heavens with other deities. He is called "Dushara from Petra" in one inscription. Dushara was expected...

central god, with the name 'Amm simply being the title for a forgotten deity whose true designation was not known. Though 'Amm was worshipped into the...

Nuha is a deity that was worshipped among the Northern Arabian tribes in pre-Islamic Arabia. Associated with the sun, she formed part of a trinity of...

omnipresence is most often used in a religious context as an attribute of a deity or supreme being, while the term ubiquity is generally used to describe...

Deities formed a part of the polytheistic religious beliefs in pre-Islamic Arabia, with many of the deities' names known. Up until about the time between...

Almaqah or Almuqh (Sabaean: 𐩱𐩡𐩣𐩤𐩠; Arabic: المقه) was national deity of the Sabaeans of the pre-Islamic Yemeni kingdom of Saba', representing the...

According to the Quran, Nasr (Arabic: نسر) was a pre-Islamic Arabian deity at the time of the Noah: "وقالوا لا تذرن آلهتكم ولا تذرن ودا ولا سواعا ولا...

Al-Kutba' (Arabic: الكتبي) was a north Arabian deity of uncertain gender. The name means, roughly, "the scribe"; it comes from the Semitic root K-T-B...

Winckler in the early twentieth century speculated that Hubal was a lunar deity, a view that was repeated by other scholars. This was derived from Ditlef...

angry and rebuked Sa'd, stating "Nay, today Al-Ka'bah will be sanctified, and Quraysh honoured." He immediately ordered that Sa'd be stripped off the...

"He of the Heavenly", was a pre-Islamic deity that was worshipped in South Arabia. He was a kind of sky deity who resided in the heavens. He was also...

al-Muṭṭalib had ten sons and six daughters.: 707–708 note 97  However, Ibn Sa'd lists twelve sons.: 99–101  By Sumra bint Jundab: Al-Ḥārith.: 708  He was...

Dionysos considers she might have been a deity of vegetation or a celestial deity of atmospheric phenomena and a sky deity. According to Wellhausen, the Nabataeans...

Shalmaneser. The deity is also attested in texts from Ugarit, Palmyra, Hatra, and North and South Arabia. Salman (name) Dictionary of deities and demons in...

linked with the Greek god Hermes, the Roman god Mercury, and the Egyptian deity Thoth.: 71  Lanfranchi, Giovanni B. (1987). The Correspondence of Sargon...

(Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ) or Jageth, if translated to English, was a deity or idol referred to in the Quran (71:23) as a god of the era of the Islamic...

of cattle and property. [Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir, by Ibn Sa'd, Volume 2, p. 202] Ibn Sa'd also explains the aftermath of this event, and Adi ibn Hatim's...

have been primarily worshipped by nomads. Abgal is known as a tutelary deity of the Arabs (or jinn) in the Palmyra region. Representations of him are...

idolatry and drew the attention of Ezekiel. List of pre-Islamic Arabian deities Tawil (1993). Ibn Ishaq Sirat Rasul Allah, pp. 165–167. S.R. Al-Mubarakpuri...

Ashaari, `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas, Jabir ibn Abd-Allah, Aisha and Sahl ibn Sa'd. The use of the sermon had been neglected for some years until certain scholars...

(ʿAttarsamē); "morning star of heaven") (Arabic: عثتر سمين) was an astral deity of uncertain gender, worshipped in the pre-Islamic northern and central...

month". Several Islamic historians and scholars, including Al Biruni, Ibn Sa'd, and Ibn Hisham, have discussed these dates in depth. Laylat al-Mabit (Muhammad's...