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Mentioned in the and Manāt . Her name also occurs in earlier Safaitic graffiti (Safaitic ''han-'Ilāt'' "the Goddess") and she was worshipped by the Nabataean s of Petra , who equated her with the Greek Athena & the Roman Minerva . According to Wellhausen, they believed Allāt was the mother of Hubal (and hence the mother-in-law of Manāt ). According to the ''Book of Idols'' (''Kitab al-Asnām'') by Hishām b. al-Kalbi, the pre-Islamic Arabs believed ''Allāt'' resided in the Ka'ba and also had a stone statue form in the sanctuary. B. al-Kalbi writes (N.A. Faris 1952, pp. 14-15): :Her custody was in the hands of the Banū-Attāb ibn-Mālik of the Thaqīf , who had built an edifice over her. The Quraysh , as well as all the Arabs, were wont to venerate Allāt. They also used to name their children after her, calling them Zayd-Allāt and Taym-Allāt. {Link without Title} Allāt continued to be venerated until the Thaqīf embraced Islam, when the Apostle of God dispatched al-Mughīrah ibn-Shuˤbah, who destroyed her and burnt her Temple to the ground. REFERENCE Ibn al-Kalbī (author) and Nabih Amin Faris (translator & commentary) (1952): ''The Book of Idols, Being a Translation from the Arabic of the'' Kitāb al-Asnām. Princeton University Press. US Library of Congress #52006741 EXTERNAL LINKS |
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