Al-Uzza
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
al-ʻUzzá · al-ʻUzzā · ʻAbd al-ʻUzzá · العزى · عبد العزى
in the texts
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Pre-Islamic goddess whose idol is said to have burned Khālid b. al-Walīd.
al-Walīd, when he demolished al-ʻUzzā, was pelted by it with sparks until most of his thigh was burned, until the Prophet, God bless him and grant him peace, said a protective charm over him.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A chief goddess of the pre-Islamic Arabs, present in the passage through the personal name ʻAbd al-ʻUzzá, cited to show that Arabs named themselves after gods once they were religious.
Moreover, those of the Arabs who worshipped the idols named themselves servants to them, as ʻAbd al-ʻUzzá, ʻAbd Manāt, ʻAbd Shams, ʻAbd Saʻd, ʻAbd Taym and others.