The theory that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a lunar deity began in 1901 with the archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He associated Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity, either Lah or Hubal, whom he identified as lunar in nature.
The theory that Allah (God in Islam) originated as a lunar deity began in 1901 with the archaeologist Hugo Winckler. He associated Allah with a pre-Islamic Arabian deity, either Lah or Hubal, whom he identified as lunar in nature.
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