{
 "id": "object/al-uzza",
 "class": "object",
 "slug": "al-uzza",
 "label": {
  "ar": "العزى",
  "en": "al-ʿUzzā"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "صنم على سمرة بوادي نخلة تعظمه قريش؛ أعظم الأصنام عندهم حتى يتفاخروا «نحن بنو العزى».",
  "en": "al-ʿUzzā — a pre-Islamic Arabian idol."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "other",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/akhbar-makka-al-azraqi"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "العزى: سمرة — شجرة — بوادي نخلة بين مكة والطائف؛ أعظم الأصنام عند قريش حتى يقول الرجل: أنا ابن العزى."
    },
    {
     "heading": "في عرض السيرة",
     "markdown": "يذكر المباركفوري أن الوثنية دخلت العرب على عهد [[person/amr-ibn-luhayy|عمرو بن لحيٍ]] الذي رأى أهل البلقاء يعظمون الأصنام فجلّها إلى الحجاز، حتى صار عند كل بطن صنم وفي كل بيت صنم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "العزى صنم عبده بعض العرب قبل الإسلام بدل الله، حتى هدم الإسلام الأصنام كلها."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/al-uzza",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Al-'Uzza: a samura-tree in Wadi Nakhla between Mecca and Ta'if; the greatest of the idols with Quraysh — a man would say: I am a son of al-'Uzza."
    },
    {
     "heading": "In the sira presentation",
     "markdown": "Al-Mubarakpuri mentions that idolatry entered the Arabs in the time of [[person/amr-ibn-luhayy|Amr ibn Luhayy]], who saw the people of al-Balqa venerating idols and carried them to the Hijaz — until every clan had an idol and every house an idol {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Al-'Uzza is an idol some Arabs worshipped before Islam instead of God — until Islam demolished all the idols."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "object/al-uzza",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/quraysh",
   "type": "held_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "place/wadi-nakhla",
   "type": "made_in",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/hums",
  "person/zayd-ibn-amr",
  "event/battle-of-badr",
  "event/battle-of-uhud",
  "event/conquest-of-mecca",
  "event/expedition-of-al-qarada",
  "event/expedition-of-al-sawiq",
  "event/expedition-of-badr-al-mawida"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}