Pre-Islamic Arabic peoples practiced a polytheistic religious structure
Historical and epigraphic evidence demonstrates that pre-Islamic Arabic societies maintained a polytheistic religious structure featuring a diverse pantheon of numerous deities and localized cults.
The claim is specific, empirical, and contestable regarding the religious practices of pre-Islamic Arabia. Multiple archaeological and epigraphic studies (e.g., papers 7, 8, and 10) explicitly confirm the presence of diverse deities, polytheism, and pantheons in pre-Islamic Arabia. None of the papers refute the claim, leading to a verdict of SUPPORTED.
V. Grasso. A Late Antique Kingdom's Conversion: Jews and Sympathizers in South Arabia. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1353/jla.2020.0022
The paper discusses the henotheistic and syncretistic religious environment of pre-Islamic North Arabia involving multiple deities and cults.
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L. Nehmé. The religious landscape of Northwest Arabia as reflected in the Nabataean, Nabataeo-Arabic, and pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.122984
The study examines inscriptions detailing hundreds of distinct divine figures and a rich pantheon in pre-Islamic Arabia.
Ahmad AL JALLAD. On the origins of the god Ruḍaw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186321000043
The research analyzes ancient Arabian deities such as Ruḍaw within the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon before the transition to Islam.
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