Allah as a lunar deity
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title:
Allah as a lunar deity
text:
The postulation that Allah originated as a moon god first arose in 1901 in the scholarship of archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He identified Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity known as Lah or Hubal, which he called a lunar deity. This notion has been dismissed by modern scholarship as being without basis. Allah is a Moon God Deity that has been Worshipped throughout Arabia since the Bronze Age. similar notion was propagated in the United States in the 1990s by Christian apologists using a 1994 p
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description:
Fringe historical claim related to the origins of Islam
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allah_as_a_lunar_deity
date created:
2012-01-02T09:17:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T22:26:05Z
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