Some scholars have suggested that Allah may have represented a remote creator god who was gradually eclipsed by more particularized local deities. The god al-Kutba', a god of writing probably related to a Babylonian deity and perhaps was brought into the region by the Babylonian king Nabonidus, [84] is mentioned in Lihyanite inscriptions as well. She died three days after she was detained by Iran's morality police for allegedly violating rules requiring women to cover their hair. The idol of the god al-Uqaysir was, according to the Book of Idols, located in Syria, and was worshipped by the tribes of Quda'a, Lakhm, Judham, Amela, and Ghatafan. The dead were not regarded as powerful, but rather as deprived of protection and needing charity of the living as a continuation of social obligations beyond the grave.

Julius Wellhausen has observed that such spirits were thought to inhabit desolate, dingy and dark places and that they were feared. Muslim sources regarding Arabian polytheism include the eighth-century Book of Idols by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi, which F. The Quraysh upheld the principle of two annual truces, one of one month and the second of three months, which conferred a sacred character to the Meccan sanctuary. In Nejd, in the centre of the peninsula, there is evidence of members of two tribes, Kinda and Taghlib, converting to Christianity in the 6th century. Sacred places were known as hima, haram or mahram, and within these places, all living things were considered inviolable and violence was forbidden.

Before conversion to Christianity, the Aksumites followed a polytheistic religion that was similar to that of Southern Arabia.

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A soothsayer performed divination in the shrine by drawing ritual arrows, [110] and vows and sacrifices were made to assure success. His name appears in the form of many inscriptions and rock engravings on the slopes of the Tuwayq, on the walls of the souk of the village, in the residential houses and on the incense burners. Mircea Eliade argues that Muhammad's knowledge of Christianity "was rather approximative" [198] and that references to the triad of God, Jesus and Mary probably reflect the likelihood that Muhammad's information on Christianity came from people who had knowledge of the Monophysite Church of Abyssinia, which was known for extreme veneration of Mary. In addition to being worshipped among the Azd, Dushara is also reported to have a shrine amongst the Daws.In South Arabia, oracles were regarded as ms’l, or "a place of asking", and that deities interacted by hr’yhw ("making them see") a vision, a dream, or even direct interaction. The influence of the adjacent Roman and Aksumite civilizations resulted in Christian communities in the northwest, northeast, and south of Arabia. The shrine and idol of al-Lat, according to the Book of Idols, once stood in Ta'if, and was primarily worshipped by the Banu Thaqif tribe.