Islam: Truth or Myth? start page

Interestingly, not many Muslims want to accept that Allah was already being worshipped at the Ka'ba in Mecca by Arab pagans before Muhammad came . Some Muslims become angry when they are confronted with this fact. But history is not on their side. Pre-Islamic literature has proved this." ( Who Is This Allah ?, G. J. O. Moshay, 1994, p 138) "But history establishes beyond the shadow of doubt that even the pagan Arabs, before Muhammad's time, knew their chief god by the name of Allah and even, in a sense, proclaimed his unity...Among the pagan Arabs this term denoted the chief god of their pantheon, the Kaaba, with its three hundred and sixty idols." ( The Moslem Doctrine of God , Samuel M. Zwemer 1905, p 24-25) In fact, he did not at first intend to establish a new religion, but rather to reform the belief in Allah which already existed, and to show what this belief truly signified and rightfully demanded . ( Mohammed: The man and his faith , Tor Andrae, 1936, Translated by Theophil Menzel, 1960, p13-30)