polytheistic

Examples of polytheistic in the following topics:

• Spread of Islam

  • In the years following the Prophet Muhammad's death, the expansion of Islam was carried out by his successor caliphates, who increased the territory of the Islamic state and sought converts from both polytheistic and monotheistic religions.
  • One is animists and polytheists of tribal societies of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile crescent; the other is the monotheistic populations of the Middle Eastern agrarian and urbanized societies.
  • For the polytheistic and pagan societies, apart from the religious and spiritual reasons each individual may have had, conversion to Islam "represented the response of a tribal, pastoral population to the need for a larger framework for political and economic integration, a more stable state, and a more imaginative and encompassing moral vision to cope with the problems of a tumultuous society."

• The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

  • Pre-Islamic religion in Arabia consisted of indigenous polytheistic beliefs, Ancient Arabian Christianity, Nestorian Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism.
  • The polytheistic Bedouin clans placed heavy emphasis on kin-related groups, with each clan clustered under tribes.

• Flight from Mecca to Medina

  • Muhammad's preaching was particularly offensive to his own Quraysh tribe because they guarded the Kaaba and drew their political and religious power from its polytheistic shrines.
  • The Quraysh tribe controlled the Kaaba and drew their religious and political power from its polytheistic shrines, so they began to persecute the Muslims and many of Muhammad's followers became martyrs.

• Etruscan Religion

  • The Greek polytheistic approach was similar to the Etruscan religious and cultural base.

• The Rise of Christianity

  • The idea of monotheism was considered offensive against the polytheistic Roman pantheon and came into further conflict with the Imperial Cult, in which emperors and some members of their families were worshipped as divine.

• The Origins of Etruria

  • The Greek polytheistic approach was similar to the Etruscan religious and cultural base.

• The Zapotec

  • Like most Mesoamerican religious systems, the Zapotec religion was polytheistic.

• Arabian Cities

  • The most important of these cities was Mecca, which was an important center of trade in the area, as well as the location of the Kaaba (or Ka'ba), one of the most revered shrines in polytheistic Arabia.

• Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building in Mecca held to be sacred both by Muslims and pre-Islamic polytheistic tribes.

• Zoroastrianism

  • The prophet Zoroaster himself, though traditionally dated to the 6th century BCE, is thought by many modern historians to have been a reformer of the polytheistic Iranian religion who lived in the 10th century BCE.