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Đu l-Sharā (Arabic,ذو شرى )"Lord of the Mountain", also known in Greek transliteration as 'Dusares' was a deity in the ancient Middle East, worshipped at Petra and Madain Saleh (of which city he was the patron deity) by the Nabataeans. The Religions of the Ancient Near East were mostly Polytheistic, with some early examples of emerging Henotheism ( Atenism, early Mesopotamian mythology is the collective name given to Sumerian Akkadian Assyrian and Babylonian mythologies from the land between the Tigris This is a sub-article to Pre-Islamic Arabia Arabian mythology comprises the ancient Pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs Prior to the In the Levantine pantheon the Elohim are the sons of El the ancient of days (olam assembled on the divine holy place Mount Zephon ( Jebel This is a sub-article to Pre-Islamic Arabia Arabian mythology comprises the ancient Pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arabs Prior to the Eli (Hebrew אל is the Northwest Semitic word and name either translated into English as "god" or "God" or left untranslated as Eli, depending Bel (beɪl from Akkadian bēlu) signifying "lord" or "master" is a Title rather than a genuine name applied to various gods Abgal is a pre-Islamic north Arabian god known from the Palmyrian desert regions as a Tutelary god of Bedouins and camel drivers Aglibôl was a Lunar deity in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. Mentioned in the Qur'an ( Sura 53:20 al-Lāt (Arabic اللَّات was a pre- Islamic Arabian Goddess who was one of the three Astarte (from Greek Ἀστάρτη ( Astártē) is the name of a Goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions cognate in name origin For the metal band see Atargatis (band. Atargatis, in Aramaic ‘Atar‘atah, was a Syrian deity "the great Ishtar ( D IŠTAR 𒀭𒌋𒁯 is the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to Bes (also spelt as Bisu) was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. Munaf (مناف was a Pre-Islamic deity in Mecca when the residents were still polytheists The name Nergal (or Nirgal, Nirgali) refers to a Deity in Babylonia with the main seat Nabu is the Babylonian god of Wisdom and Writing, worshipped by Babylonians as the son of Marduk and his consort Sarpanitum, Al-Qaum (القوم was the Nabataean god of War and the night and guardian of caravans Large numbers of inscriptions bearing his name have been found Sin (Akkadian Sîn, Suen; Sumerian Nanna) is a Sumerian God in Mesopotamian mythology. For the Canaanite sun godess see Shemesh Shamash was the common Akkadian name of the Sun-god and god of justice in Babylonia Mentioned in the Qur'an ( Sura 53:19 al-‘Uzzá "the Mightiest One" or "the strong" (derived from the root ʕzz) was a pre- Wadd "Love Friendship" known variously as Ilumquh, ʕAmm and Sīn, was the Minaean Moon god. Yaghūth (Arabic "He Helps" يَغُوثَ is an idol referred to in the Qur'an (7123 as a god of the era of the Prophet Noah According to the Qur'an, Ya'uq was a deity worshipped in the days of Noah. Malakbêl was a Sun deity of the city of Palmyra in pre-Islamic Syria. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language See also List of deities A deity is a Postulated Preternatural or Supernatural Being, who is always The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Petra (from "petra" rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah The Nabataeans ( Arabic: الأنباط, Al-Anbāṭ) were an ancient Semitic people Arabs of southern Jordan, Canaan In Greek times, he was associated with Zeus because he was the chief of the Nabataean pantheon. Zeus (zjuːs in Greek: nominative: Zeús /zdeús/ genitive: Diós; Modern Greek /'zefs/ in Greek mythology His sanctuary at Petra contained a great temple in which a large cubical stone (Ka'ba) was the centrepiece. Petra (from "petra" rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah The Kaaba ( Arabic: ar الكعبة; 'kɑʕbɑ or 'kæʕbæ "Cube" is a Cuboidal building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the
The existence of this deity was mentioned by the 9th century CE historian Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, who wrote in The Book of Idols (Kitab al-Asnām) that: "The Banū al-Hāārith ibn-Yashkur ibn-Mubashshir of the ˤAzd had an idol called Đu l-Sharā. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi, full name Abu al-Mundhir Hisham b Muhammed b "
References
Ibn al-Kalbī; (author) and Nabih Amin Faris (translator & commentary) (1952): The Book of Idols, Being a Translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-Asnām. Princeton University Press. US Library of Congress #52006741
External links
- Nabataean religion
- The Kitab al-Asnam ("Book of Idols"): translation as posted by an evangelical Christian site.
- Kitab al-Asnam in the original Arabic (description on p. 5)
- Dhushara The Meaning of the Name
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