polytheist

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In Medina, the previously polytheist Arabs, Jewish Arabs, and Muhammad’s ummah formed an alliance for their common defense.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In 622, Muhammad’s twelfth year of prophecy, his community fled persecution and increasing aggression by the polytheist Meccans.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

"I think I'm a polytheist, in as much as I believe in multiple divinities."

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2014

Before his death, he made Mecca, and especially the Kaaba, a center of veneration that was to draw a thousand times more pilgrims than had ever worshiped at Mecca's polytheist shrines.

From Time Magazine Archive

“As a Hindu, I’m a polytheist, as you well know.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon