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Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia
Relief of the goddess Allāt, one of the three patron gods of the city of Mecca
Before the rise of the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, most Bedouin tribes practiced polytheism in the form of animism and idolatry.
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