Manat (goddess)

thumb|The Arabian goddess Allat standing on a lion flanked by two female figures (Manat and al-Uzza?). 2nd century relief from Hatra. Manāt (Arabic: مناة Arabic pronunciation: [maˈnaːh] pausa, [maˈnaːt] or Old Arabic manawat; also transliterated as manāh) was a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century. She was among Mecca's three chief goddesses, alongside her sisters, Allat and Al-‘Uzzá,[1] and among them, she was the original and the oldest. Quotes He sent Sa’d b. Zayd al-Ashhali to Manāt in al-Mushallal and he pulled it down. Al-Wāqidī’s Kitāb al-Maghāzī, edited by Rizwi Faizer, p.428 The Quraysh as well as the rest of the Arabs continued to venerate Manah until the Apostle of God set out from Medina in the eighth year of the Hijrah[16], the year in which God accorded him the victory[17]. When he was at a distance of four or five nights from Medina, he dispatched ‘Ali to destroy her. ‘Ali demolished her, took away all her [treasures], and carried them back to the Prophet. Kitāb al-ʾAṣnām, translated by Nabih Amin Faris, p.14 External links Category:Middle Eastern mythology