Pre-Islamic Arab Religion

>>1898921
I think this is the first good post I've seen from you.

>>1898921
>They were the once to also claim that the Kaaba was a Abrahamic symbol that should be worshiped even before Muhammad started his own thing.
There were actually Christian paintings inside the Ka'ba during Muhammad's time, and the building itself was apparently built by an Christian Roman or Ethiopian.

>>1898850
We do not have a single story of pre-Islamic Arabian pagan mythology. No creation myth, no theogony, no eschaton, nothing.

Not a single myth.

We have to look for the names of their goddesses in the Qur'an for crying out loud.

The other major source is The Book of Idols (Kitāb al-Așnām) by 8th Century scholar Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, and we have a single manuscript.

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>>1898996
It's been re-built a lot, the first one supposedly built by Abraham was more like a low enclosure, but in Muhammad's time this was accidentally burned and rebuilt as a cube with walls of alternating wood and stone layers. Muhammad apparently helped in the construction, guiding the placement of the black stone, but I'm not sure how true that is. It was destroyed again by the Umayyads during a siege of Mecca and rebuilt in masonry. The current one was built by the Ottomans in the 17th century but follows the same design as the Umayyad one.

Here's stuff about the paintings; http://archnet.org/publications/5401

>>1898850
There were Jews, Zoroastrians, and Gnostic Christians in the region along with the native Arab beliefs. The area had been part of the power struggle between the Romans and the Persians.

>>1898850
Nothing. They were just travellers in the desert. In a sense, Islam and Mohammed gave them breathing space for mass civilisation and enterpries


Turks and Persians aren't 'Arabs'

>>1899019

We have mention of their mythology in the Mu'allaqat, which predate the Quran and Mohammed.

Also Nabataean inscriptions make reference to pre-Islamic Arab deities like Dushara or Allat or Manat or Al-Qaum.

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>>1898958
>>1898996
>>1899044

According to Hindu nationalists (the same people who believe ancient Hindus invented space travel, the warp drive, nuclear weapons, and wuz kangz n shieeet), the Ka'aba was actually a Hindu temple dedicated to the Hindu pantheon.

what else do we know about the nabateans?

>>1899284
Source on all these claims fampai? Im ready for a good laugh desu.

>>1899318

>Northern Arab tribe
>heavily involved in spice trade
>eventually created the city of Petra in Jordan because it was smack dab in the middle of their trade routes
>chief deity was Dushara (lit. "Lord of the Mountain") but had an entire pantheon of Arabian gods
>became Romanized eventually
>converted to Islam along with the rest of the Arabs

>>1898850

>What did the Arabs believe before Muhammad and the Islamic conquests?

They were polytheistic and believed in a pantheon of gods, much like the other ancient Semitic nations (Akkadians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, etc).

>Why did they so easily accept Abrahamic religion, were they Christians before?

There were already a significant number of Jews and Christians in pre-Islamic Arabia. These were the ones to accept Mohammed as a prophet and leader and make up the bulk of his followers in the early days.

>Why did they so easily accept Abrahamic religion, were they Christians before?

what? Mecca was the epicenter of Arabian polytheism. Every surrounding tribe sent gifts and sacrifices to the Kaaba, at the time it housed all of the Arab polytheistic gods. The inhabitants of Mecca drove Muhammad out from the very beginning, due to his monotheistic talk. They tried to assassinate him numerous times, and eventually resolved to fight an actual war against him. In the end the Muslims defeated the Meccans, and took their city, and the Kaaba. Due to its respected and revered nature, Muslim control over the Kaaba and Mecca itself resonated throughout the rest of the peninsula, but polytheism still fought well into the time of Muhammad's successors.

Other than the already existing Jewish and Christian Arabs, the polytheist Arabs in no way shape or form "easily" accepted Islam.

>>1899353
wew