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
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
Unlike the other groups around them, who were polytheists, the Hebrews were monotheists.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
That they were a philosophic priesthood advocating a pure religion among polytheists is a baseless theory.
From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch
