Moab
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Mūʼāb · the Moabite country · مواب
in the texts
Letters
Region tributary to David's kingdom.
And you surely remember the history, that all Judaea was tributary to David, and the land of Idumaea and the Moabite country, and as much of Syria as bordered on it and what lay farther off as far as Mesopotamia;
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The land whose Baal cult, according to the Arabs' own report, ʻAmr ibn Luḥayy admired and carried home to Mecca as Hubal.
It appears that when the aforesaid ʻAmr came to Moab, the Moabites' worship of this idol pleased him — for they used to seek rain and seek victory of it — and he carried it to Mecca under its Hebrew name “Habaʻl.
First — the Arabs' own saying that it came to them from Moab in the land of al-Balqāʼ, brought to them by the ʻAmr ibn Luḥayy we have mentioned.