Research Article | Open Access
The Development of Animal Totem Worship among Arabs Before Islam
Zainab Abaas Rahi,Prof. Shakir Mahmoud Ismael
Pages: 7444-7448
Abstract
This research aims to address the animal totem worship of Arabs before Islam, as one of the main features in the religious aspect. The religious factor played an important role in ancient societies, as we find religion as a phenomenon and a social need that accompanies people throughout their lives, and among these societies is the Arabian Peninsula community before Islam. Who was concerned with the worship and sanctification of animals to obtain blessing, and then taking animal religious symbols instead, and this phenomenon was not widespread among the Arabs only, but in the countries of the ancient world even and it continues until now in the countries of Australia, South America, Africa and India.Therefore, in this modest research, we will try to identify the ancient Arab view of sacred animals and how that view developed
Keywords
Totem, Before Islam, Animals.