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==Hubal in Mecca==
Hubal most prominently appears at [[Mecca]], where an image of his was worshipped at the [[Kaaba]]. According to [[Karen Armstrong]], the sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal, who was worshipped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year.<ref name=armstrong>{{cite book|pages=11|title=Islam: A Short History|author=Karen Armstrong|isbn=0-8129-6618-x|date=2000,2002}}</ref> According to [[Julius Wellhausen]] Hubal was regarded as the son of [[Allat|al-L?t]] and the brother of [[Wadd]].<ref>Wellhausen, 1926, p. 717, quoted in translation by [ Hans Krause]</ref>
[[Hisham Ibn Al-Kalbi]]'s ''Book of Idols'' describes the image as shaped like a human, with the right hand broken off and replaced with a golden hand.<ref name="moongod">{{cite web|url=|title=Hubal, the moon god of the Kaba|author=Brother Andrew|publisher=bible.ca|accessdate=2007-09-04}}</ref> According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was made of red [[agate]], whereas [[Al-Azraqi]], an early Islamic commentator, described it as of "[[cornelian]] pearl". Al-Azraqi also relates that it "had a vault for the sacrifice" and that the offering consisted of a hundred camels. Both authors speak of seven arrows, placed before the image, which were cast for [[divination]], in cases of death, virginity and marriage.<ref name="moongod"/> According to Al-Azraqi, a man coming back from a journey would shave his hair and then circumambulate the Kaaba before going to his family.
According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was first set up by Khuzaymah ibn-Mudrikah ibn-al-Ya's' ibn-Mudar, but another tradition, record by [[Ibn Ishaq]], holds that [[Amr ibn Luhayy]], a leader of the [[Quraysh (tribe)|Quraysh]], put an image of Hubal into the [[Kaaba]], where it was worshipped as one chief deities of the tribe.<ref>Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar, ''Muhammad The Holy Prophet'' (1969).</ref> The date for Amr is disputed, with dates as late as the end of the fourth century CE suggested, but what is quite sure is that the Quraysh became the protectors of the ancient holy place, supplanting the Khuza'a. There may be some foundation of truth in the story that Amr travelled in Syria and had brought back from there the cults of the goddesses [[Uzza|?Uzz??]] and [[Manah|Manat]], and had combined it with that of Hubal, the idol of the Khuza'a.<ref>Maxime Rodinson, 1961.</ref> According to Al-Azraqi, the image was brought to Mecca "from the land of Hit in Mesopotamia". [[Philip K. Hitti]], who relates the name ''Hubal'' to an Aramaic word for spirit, suggests that the worship of Hubal was imported to Mecca from the north of Arabia, possibly from [[Moab]] or [[Mesopotamia]].<ref>Hitti, ''[[History of the Arabs (book)|History of the Arabs]]'' 1937, p. 96-101.</ref> Outside South Arabia, Hubal's name appears just once, in a [[Nabataea]]n inscription;<ref>''Corpus Inscriptiones Semit.'', vol. II: 198; Jaussen and Savignac, ''Mission Arch