20th October 2005, 7:17 AM
Quote:n pagan Arabia, before the Islam, the god Hubal (هبل) was worshipped, notably at the Kaaba at Mecca, where his was the grandest of the idols. When he conquered Mecca, Muhammad ended his tribe Quraysh's tradition of idol-worship by smashing Hubal together with all the 360 idols at the Kaaba. Some sources claim that Hubal was a moon god. Attempts to identify Hubal with Allah have been notably popular among evangelical Christians, but even they acknowledge that this hypothesis is speculativehttp://answering-islam.org.uk/Index/M/moongod.html, and it is contradicted by the Islamic-period texts from which most knowledge of pre-Islamic Arab religion derives.
Which I will say history is written by the victors!