polytheist
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Any vision for a renewed polytheist empire ended with his death.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
"I think I'm a polytheist, in as much as I believe in multiple divinities."
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2014
The polytheist is not surprised the world seems capricious, illogical, anarchic.
From Time Magazine Archive
“As a Hindu, I’m a polytheist, as you well know.”
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
The Arabs were polytheists — they worshiped a variety of gods linked to various oases in the desert.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
About 1.5% of the American population identifies as “other faiths,” including “Unitarians, those who identify with Native American religions, Pagans, Wiccans, New Agers, deists, Scientologists, pantheists, polytheists, Satanists and Druids, to name just a few.”
From Salon ● May 7, 2017
Mr. Barber, of the University of Chicago, said that the focus on Yazidis was likely because they are polytheists, with an oral tradition rather than a written scripture.
From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2015
For animists and polytheists, the natural world is full of spirits.
From BBC ● May 3, 2013
S: Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord; there is no god but He; and withdraw from the polytheists.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
