Hisham ibn al-Kalbî: The Book of Idols Year: ca. 800

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Hisham ibn al-Kalbî:The Book of IdolsYEAR: ca. 800
Al-‘Uzza
Abstract

They [Quraysh] then adopted al-’Uzza as their goddess. She is, in point of time, more recent than either Allât or Manâh, since I have heard that the Arabs named their children after the latter two before they named them after al-’Uzza.

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