Hilal, a pre-Islamic deity of Arabia, was god of one phase of this heavenly body
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pre-Islamic Arabia; examples including: Hilal, one of the chief gods of the .... trees
; the earth; space; the air; fire; the sky, and bodies of water, and are... [DOC] [TLE] Reply To Robert Morey's Moon-God Allah Myth: A Look - Islamic ... [PAR] Sep 15, 2007 ... A devastating refutation of Dr. Robert Morey's Moon-god Allah hypothesis from ... 
of the Qur'an was in fact a pagan Arab "Moon-god" from pre-Islamic times.