In
Islam
Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God (or '' Allah'') as it was revealed to Muhammad, the ...
, Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai ( ar, عبد العزى بن قصي) forms an important link between his father,
Qusai ibn Kilab
Qusai ibn Kilab ibn Murrah ( ar, قصي ٱبن كلاب ٱبن مرة, ''Qusayy ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah''; ca. 400–480), also spelled Qusayy, Kusayy, Kusai, or Cossai, born Zayd ( ar, زيد), was an Ishmaelite descendant of the Prophet Abraha ...
(c. 400–480), the great-great-grandfather of
Shaiba ibn Hashim
Shayba ibn Hāshim ( ar, شَيْبَة بْن هَاشِم; 497–578), better known as ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, ( ar, عَبْد ٱلْمُطَّلِب , lit=Servant of Muttalib) was the fourth chief of the Quraysh tribal confederation. He was ...
(Abd al-Mutallib) and his son
Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza ( ar, أسد بن عبدالعزى, Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā) was a grandson of Qusai ibn Kilab and the matrilineal great-great-grandfather of the prophet of Islam Muhammad.
Note that Asad was of the Banu Quraish. His clan sh ...
.
The name
Abd al-Uzza Abd al-Uzza ( ar, عبدالعزى, ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā) is a theophoric Arabic name that means "servant of al-Uzza", one of the pre-Islamic Arabian divinities.
;Given name
*Abd al-Uzza ibn Qusai
* Abd al-Uzza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
;Patronymic
*Quta ...
derives from one of the three chief
gods
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of
Arabian religion
Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Iranian religions such as Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism, and rarely Buddhism.
Arabian polytheism, ...
in pre-Islamic times,
al-Uzza
Al-ʻUzzā ( ar, العزى or Old Arabic l ʕuzzeː was one of the three chief goddesses of Arabian religion in pre-Islamic times and she was worshiped by the pre-Islamic Arabs along with al-Lāt and Manāt. A stone cube at Nakhla (near M ...
.
References
5th-century Arabs
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