Monotheistic religions and their impact on the Arab mentality before Islam

Abstract

The Arabs before Islam - like other peoples - knew the gods and worshiped them and thought of the existence of higher powers that had influence and authority over them and their lives, so they tried, as others tried to approach them and appease them by various means and methods, and put names and attributes for them, and addressed them with their tongues and their hearts, and they took a number of paths in that. Later, beliefs and beliefs were formed that people gathered to worship by, so he knew what we call in our languages ​​religions (). The belief of the Arabs in the past was very primitive, and the entry of unified religions into the Arabian Peninsula was the main factor that crystallized religious awareness and developed their beliefs.