Whether Moon-gods Were The High-gods In South Arabian Religions

Yoel Natan Books Yoel.info ^ | October 2006 | Yoel Natan

[allahisamoongod]

I. Introduction. This piece is written in response to “Reply to Robert Morey’s Moon-God Allah Myth: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence,” dated 26 Jun 2006, authored by Saifullah, Juferi & David and published on the Islamic Awareness website. This response is more focused on the issues in question rather than on defending Morey’s scholarship. While a few of Saifullah’s criticisms of Morey's work are addressed, Morey may wish to issue another pamphlet like the one he wrote answering a prior critic, Shabir Ally.[1][snip]

VIII. Conclusion. Most of this essay is extracted from the “Critique of the Revisionist View on the Sun- and Moon-gods in Southern Arabia” section of Yoel Natan’s book Moon-o-theism (volume I, pages 338-359, section: “Critique of the Revisionist View on the Sun- and Moon-gods in Southern Arabia”) where one can find much more evidence, illustrations, sourcing and further refutation of the revisionist critics. The section on Hubal being Jupiter was extracted from Moon-o-theism (volume II, pages 768-774, section: “Hubal as Baal”). Moon-o-theism shows that beyond a doubt Allah was a war- and moon-god, and both volumes are well worth the read.

[allahisamoongod]

The Moon-o-theism volumes are very detailed and show beyond a doubt that Allah was a war- and moon-god before Muhammad met him. Allah never quite morphed completely into the God of the Bible, but he and the Koran and Islam all retain many war- and moon-god qualities.

[ViLaLuz]

Ping for later.

[Ciexyz]

btt

[SunkenCiv]

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[BenLurkin]

IIRC, "Angelfire" is a suspect source . . .

[allahisamoongod]

The same write-up is cross-posted on this page, except there's a disclaimer statement by Jochen Katz saying that he's a neutral party in the debate:
Allah the moon-god?
http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Saifullah/moonotheism.htm

[maryz]

I thought Angelfire was sort of a free posting place for people who don't have websites. Not a "source" at all, in the required sense. Depends on the reliability of the individual posters.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Welcome to Free Republic, and good first post! :D

[allahisamoongod]

Thanks! I've read dozens of Free Republic articles before and also blogs, but don't usually post much anywhere.

[SunkenCiv]

According to an old Greek source, the kaaba (the cube, supposedly and traditionally built by Abraham, which probably wasn't, and the story that it was probably antedates Mohammed but postdates Abraham by a couple of thousand years) had a large, fat, buddha-like statue on top of it, an idol, carved to look like an anthropomorphic deity sitting crosslegged.

Zul-Qarnain - What is the argument?
by Jochen Katz

I have never claimed that Zul-Qarnain *is* the historical Alexander the Great. I don't know why your move to agree with me in this is considered a rebuttal... The argument is then that the Qur'anic story is clearly taken from the legends about Alexander. There are many many details of the Qur'an account which are nearly verbatim to be found in the Alexander legends. Conclusion: Zul-Qarnain clearly is the Alexander the Great of the legend stories. And because the Qur'an presents the material from the legends as if this were history, it shows that Muhammad could not distinguish between legends and history when he incorporated this material in the Qur'an. This is evidence that the Qur'an is not of divine origin.

[rdl6989]

Oh, but Islam is a religion of peace and humanity. /sarcasm off

[allahisamoongod]

23-page excerpt of Moon-o-theism vol i on the subject of the revisionists is found here: http://beta.scribd.com/word/view/358