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    Al-ʻUzzā (Arabic: العزى al-ʻUzzā [al ʕuzzaː] or Old Arabic, [al ʕuzzeː]) was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times...
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    symbols instead of Ugaritic alphabet. ʼĒl (/ɛl/ EL; also 'Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil...
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    Arabian Peninsula, including Mecca, where she was worshipped alongside Al-Uzza and Manat as one of the daughters of Allah. The word Allat or Elat has been...
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    and Al-‘Uzzá as theophoric names including hers, such as Abd-Manah or Zayd-Manah, are found earlier than names featuring Al-Lat's or Al-‘Uzzá's. But aside...
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    Hejaz (redirect from El Hejaz)
    father of Abdul-Uzza the father of Barrah the maternal grandmother of Muhammad Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, paternal ancestor of Muhammad Abdul-Uzza, son of Qusai...
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    various gods and goddesses, including Hubal and the goddesses al-Lāt, al-‘Uzzā, and Manāt, at local shrines and temples such as the Kaaba in Mecca. Deities...
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  • travelled in Syria and had brought back from there the cults of the goddesses ʻUzzāʼ and Manāt, and had combined it with that of Hubal, the idol of the Khuza'a...
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  • no god (ʾilāh) except the God (Allāh)." Arabian mythology Al-Lāt Al-‘Uzzá Manāt El (deity) Eloah Elohim History of Arabia Pre-Islamic Arabia Religion in...
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  • worshipped continually along the regnant deities of Mecca, including al-'Uzza. al-Azraqi, Akhbār Makka, pg. 49 Al-Azmeh, Aziz (2017-02-23). The Emergence...
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    the more aloof El. The Lebanese city of Baalbeck was named after Baal. Alternatively, Ba' al is a divine co-regent with El, where El was the executive...
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    Yahweh (category Children of El (deity))
    goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal. In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated and El-linked epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied...
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  • Al-Uzza were once a single deity, which parted ways in the pre-Islamic Meccan tradition. Pre-Islamic Arabs believed that the goddesses Al-lāt, Al-‘Uzzá,...
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    been placed on a base faced with gold, indicates that it was actually Al-Uzza, equated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, that was worshiped here. Healey...
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    widespread references to names including Allah, El and Allat (god and goddess), with regional references to al-Uzza, Baal and Manutu (Manat) (Negev 11). Allat...
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    goddess al-ʿUzzā, who was supposed to inhabit three trees. After cutting down all the trees, a woman with wild hair appears, identified with al-ʿUzzā. After...
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  • Baal Berith (redirect from El Berith)
    Baʿal Berith (Hebrew: בעל ברית, lit. 'Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped...
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    dedicated to him rather than El is a matter of scholarly debate. In lists of gods and offerings from Ugarit, Dagan sometimes follows El but precedes Baal. Two...
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    Conspectus (Leiden, Brill, 2001) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 136). el-Khouri, Lamia; Johnson, David, "A New Nabataean Inscription from Wadi Mataha...
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  • Medina. She was Abu Bakr's daughter. Her mother was Qutaylah bint Abd al-Uzza, and she was the full sister of Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr. Her half-sisters...
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    supreme god El resides on Mount Lel (Night?) where the assembly of the gods meets. At the beginning of the cycle, there appears to a feud between El and Ba‘al...
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    heavenly gates as well as to the dark mountains behind which the fallen angels Uzza and Azzazel were chained; the eagle would rest on the chains, and Solomon...
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    breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day. "Perez-uzza": from Hebrew פרץ עזא meaning "the bursting out against Uzza", written...
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    Qetesh Ra Set Shu Tefnut Thoth Arabian Allah Aglibol Abgal al-Lat al-Qaum al-‘Uzzá Atarsamain ʿAṯtar Baalshamin Bēl Dhul Khalasa Dushara Gad Hubal Malakbel...
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    between Tyre and Acre, he found two Phoenician inscriptions dedicated to El-Hammon. Others have proposed Hammon as a syncretic association with the Egyptian...
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  • Manāt Nasr Nuha Quzah Ruda Sa'd Shams, Samas Syn Suwa' Ta'lab Theandrios al-‘Uzzá Wadd Ya'uq Yaghūth Yatha Arabian deities of other Semitic origins Aglibol...
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  • (praying)?" When they replied in affirmative he said: "by the gods Al-Lat and Al-Uzza, if I ever catch him in that act of worship (salah), I will set my foot on...
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    Manāt Nasr Nuha Quzah Ruda Sa'd Shams, Samas Syn Suwa' Ta'lab Theandrios al-‘Uzzá Wadd Ya'uq Yaghūth Yatha Arabian deities of other Semitic origins Aglibol...
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  • Muhammad: The Early Evidence in Poetry and Hadith". Millennium. 20 (1): 33–63. El Tayib, Abdulla (1983). "Pre-Islamic poetry" (PDF). In A.F.L., Beeston; Johnstone...
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    been al-Uzza and the goddess has been associated with Temple of Winged Lions on the basis that if the divine couple of Petra was Dushara and al-Uzza and the...
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    Suwa', Ta'lab, Theandrios, al-‘Uzzá, Wadd, Ya'uq, Yaghūth, Yatha, Aglibol, Astarte, Atargatis, Baalshamin, Bēl, Bes, Ēl, Ilāh, Inanna/Ishtar, Malakbel...
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