polytheist
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In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In 622, Muhammad’s twelfth year of prophecy, his community fled persecution and increasing aggression by the polytheist Meccans.
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
Before his death, he made Mecca, and especially the Kaaba, a center of veneration that was to draw a thousand times more pilgrims than had ever worshiped at Mecca's polytheist shrines.
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
In their writings we have the reflections of polytheists upon the actions and attributes of the gods.
From The Idea of God in Early Religions by Jevons, F. B. (Frank Byron)
