HIST 381A Study Guide - Final Guide: Salah, Surah, Adhan
3 Apr 2016
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Religious beliefs of meccan society before muhammad, the meccans were polytheistic and made a pilgrimage once per year to the kaba, important polytheist gods: hubal, allah (lit. the god); goddesses: al-lat, al-uzzah, al-manat: daughters of. Allah was the high god who was worshipped at the kaba. Distant, remote and inaccessible god: people often turned to other more accessible gods, especially the goddesses: al-lat, al-uzzah, al-manat, kaba: a shrine to the polytheistic gods before. Muhammad but after abraham and ishmael (for muslim sources) Believed to be founded and established by. Adam, but destroyed by the flood and rebuilt by noah: forgotten after that period until. Muhammad is suddenly stopped by a christian monk, bahira: bahira prophesizes that muhammad is a great. Messenger of g-d: judaism: muhammad encountered three jewish tribes in. Medina who would not agree that he was a prophet, the tribes ended up being bad to the muslims and fled the area or were exterminated.
