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Hubal, the Glossary

In Arabian mythology, Hubal (هُبَل) was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca.^[1]

60 relations: Abd al-Muttalib, Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, Agate, Al-Azraqi, Al-Lat, Al-Qaeda, Al-Tabari, Al-Uzza, Allah as a lunar deity, Arabian Peninsula, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baal, Banu Khuza'ah, Barack Obama, Battle of Badr, Belomancy, Book of Idols, Carnelian, Charles Joseph Adams, Chick tract, Cult image, Deity, Divination, Dushara, Evening Standard, Farzana Hassan, Fox News, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, History of the Arabs (book), History of the Prophets and Kings, Hit, Iraq, Ibn Ishaq, Islam, Janet Parshall, Julius Wellhausen, Kaaba, Karen Armstrong, Lunar deity, Manat (goddess), Mecca, Mesopotamia, Mircea Eliade, Moab, Muhammad, Nabataean Kingdom, Osama bin Laden, Pat Robertson, ... Expand index (10 more) »
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Abd al-Muttalib

Shayba ibn Hāshim (شَيْبة بْن هاشِم), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, (Muttalib) was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tribal confederation and grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib

Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib (ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib) was the father of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Abdullah Yusuf Azzam

Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was an Arab Islamist, jihadist and theologian from the Jordanian occupied West Bank.

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Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

Sakhr ibn Harb ibn Umayya (translit), commonly known by his Abu Sufyan (translit), was a prominent opponent-turned companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Agate

Agate is the banded variety of chalcedony, which comes in a wide variety of colors.

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Al-Azraqi

Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah Al-Azraqi was a 9th-century Islamic commentator and historian, and author of the Book of Reports about Mecca (Kitab Akhbar Makka).

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al-Lat (translit), also spelled Allat, Allatu, and Alilat, is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, at one time worshipped under various associations throughout the entire Arabian Peninsula, including Mecca, where she was worshipped alongside Al-Uzza and Manat as one of the daughters of Allah.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Al-Tabari

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.

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Al-Uzza

Al-ʻUzzā (العزى or Old Arabic) was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times and she was worshipped by the pre-Islamic Arabs along with al-Lāt and Manāt.

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Allah as a lunar deity

The postulation that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archaeologist Hugo Winckler.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Ayman al-Zawahiri

Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri (translit; 19 June 195131 July 2022) was an Egyptian-born pan-Islamist militant and physician who served as the second general emir of al-Qaeda from June 2011 until his death in July 2022.

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Baal

Baal, or Baʻal (baʿal), was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. Hubal and Baal are Rain deities.

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Banu Khuza'ah

The Banū Khuzāʿah (بنو خزاعة, singular خزاعيّ Khuzāʿī) are an Azdite, Qahtanite tribe, one of the main ancestral tribes of Arabia.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Battle of Badr

The Battle of Badr (غَزْوَةُ بَدْرٍ), also referred to as The Day of the Criterion in the Qur'an and by Muslims, was fought on 13 March 624 CE (17 Ramadan, 2 AH), near the present-day city of Badr, Al Madinah Province in Saudi Arabia.

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Belomancy

Belomancy, also bolomancy, is the ancient art of divination by use of arrows.

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Book of Idols

The Book of Idols, written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), is one of the most important Islamic-era works to describe and present the Islamic conception of the gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions.

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Carnelian

Carnelian (also spelled cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral commonly used as a semiprecious stone.

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Charles Joseph Adams

Charles Joseph Adams (April 24, 1924 – March 23, 2011)Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014.

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Chick tract

Chick tracts are short evangelical gospel tracts in a comic book format, originally created by American cartoonist Jack Chick in the 1960s.

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Cult image

In the practice of religion, a cult image is a human-made object that is venerated or worshipped for the deity, spirit or daemon that it embodies or represents.

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Deity

A deity or god is a supernatural being considered to be sacred and worthy of worship due to having authority over the universe, nature or human life.

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Divination

Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic ritual or practice.

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Dushara

Dushara (Nabataean Arabic: 𐢅𐢈𐢝𐢛𐢀 dwšrʾ), also transliterated as Dusares, is a pre-Islamic Arabian god worshipped by the Nabataeans at Petra and Madain Saleh (of which city he was the patron). Hubal and Dushara are Arabian gods and Nabataea.

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Evening Standard

The Evening Standard, formerly The Standard (1827–1904), is a long-established newspaper, since 2009 a local free newspaper in tabloid format, with a website on the Internet, published in London, England.

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Farzana Hassan

Farzana Hassan, also known as Farzana Hassan Shahid, is a Pakistani-Canadian author, speaker, and human rights activist who focuses on the treatment of Muslim women and has expressed support for banning the burqa.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.

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Hisham ibn al-Kalbi

Hishām ibn al-Kalbī (هشامبن الكلبي), 737 AD – 819 AD/204 AH, also known as Ibn al-Kalbi, was an Arab historian.

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History of the Arabs (book)

History of the Arabs is a book written by Philip Khuri Hitti and was first published in 1937.

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History of the Prophets and Kings

The History of the Prophets and Kings (تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk), more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari (تاريخ الطبري) or Tarikh-i Tabari or The History of al-Tabari (تاریخ طبری) is an Arabic-language historical chronicle completed by the Muslim historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (225–310 AH, 838–923 AD) in 915 AD.

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Hit, Iraq

Hit or Heet (هيت, Hīt) is an Iraqi city in Al Anbar Governorate.

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Ibn Ishaq

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (translit; –767), known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Janet Parshall

Janet Parshall (born 1950) is an American nationally syndicated radio talk show host known for the Christian program In the Market with Janet Parshall, which is broadcast on the Moody Radio network on over 700 stations.

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Julius Wellhausen

Julius Wellhausen (17 May 1844 – 7 January 1918) was a German biblical scholar and orientalist.

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Kaaba

The Kaaba, sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.

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Lunar deity

A lunar deity or moon deity is a deity who represents the Moon, or an aspect of it.

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Manat (goddess)

(مناة pausa, or Old Arabic manawat; also transliterated as) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century.

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Mecca

Mecca (officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah) is the capital of Mecca Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia and the holiest city according to Islam.

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Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.

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Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Moab

Moab is an ancient Levantine kingdom whose territory is today located in southern Jordan.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Nabataean Kingdom

The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea, was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity. Hubal and Nabataean Kingdom are Nabataea.

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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (translit; 10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.

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Pat Robertson

Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023) was an American media mogul, religious broadcaster, political commentator, presidential candidate, and charismatic minister.

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Philip K. Hitti

Philip Khuri Hitti (فيليب خوري حتي; 22 June 1886 – 24 December 1978) was a Lebanese-American professor and scholar at Princeton and Harvard University, and authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Semitic languages.

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Pre-Islamic Arabia

Pre-Islamic Arabia, referring to the Arabian Peninsula before Muhammad's first revelation in 610 CE, is referred to in Islam in the context of, highlighting the prevalence of paganism throughout the region at the time.

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Prophets and messengers in Islam

Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.

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Quraysh

The Quraysh (قُرَيْشٌ) was an Arab tribe that inhabited and controlled Mecca and its Kaaba.

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Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia

Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Zoroastrianism.

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Robert Morey (pastor)

Robert A. Morey (November 13, 1946 – January 5, 2019) was a Christian apologist and pastor who wrote a number of books and pamphlets.

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Sayyid Qutb

Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb (9 October 190629 August 1966) was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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