It seems that in pre-Islamic Arabia there had existed. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORIOGRAPHY] Reference
She knows the primitive pre-Islamic culture first hand. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Alternate sovereignty over Jerusalem by time, why not?] Reference
We've just been discussing pre-Islamic Arabian artwork. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
The museum in Riyadh has a number of pre-Islamic statues. From Wordnik.com. [Sabria Jawhar: Saudis Struggle With How to Treat Pre-Islamic Artifacts Unearthed in Saudi Arabia] Reference
The pre-Islamic custom of female infanticide was prohibited. From Wordnik.com. [Leora Tanenbaum: Will the Real Islam Please Stand Up?] Reference
Many Muslims still exist in a Seventh Century pre-Islamic culture. From Wordnik.com. [Will Congress Criminalize Anti-Semitism and Israeli Criticism?] Reference
BECK: Zuhdi, I can ` t believe that you just said pre-Islamic culture. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2007] Reference
We Saudis are not particularly eager to look for pre-Islamic artifacts. From Wordnik.com. [Sabria Jawhar: Saudis Struggle With How to Treat Pre-Islamic Artifacts Unearthed in Saudi Arabia] Reference
About a dozen rare pre-Islamic grave effigies from Nuristan also survive. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Under Siege: Full Text] Reference
The pre-Islamic women of Arabia were pretty much treated like commodities. From Wordnik.com. [Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Unrealized Economic Potential of the Muslim World] Reference
Religious symbols aside, there is a precedent in showcasing pre-Islamic items. From Wordnik.com. [Sabria Jawhar: Saudis Struggle With How to Treat Pre-Islamic Artifacts Unearthed in Saudi Arabia] Reference
At left, a decorative object from the pre-Islamic period on display at the museum. From Wordnik.com. [National Treasure] Reference
Adoption of the pre-Islamic Iranian calendar to replace the Islamic system of dating. From Wordnik.com. [1924] Reference
The sacred stone has a vulvic-shaped cleft suggesting ancient pre-Islamic goddess worship. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Showered With Stars] Reference
Ergenekon is alleged to be a secret antigovernment organization named after a pre-Islamic Turkish myth. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey's Islamists] Reference
The choice was either to expand beyond Arabia or see Arabs fall back to their pre-Islamic tribal rivalries. From Wordnik.com. [Review of The Great Arab Conquests, by Hugh Kennedy] Reference
Yet it is also a capital of pre-Islamic Persia, and is well known for its Zoroastrian temples and grave sites. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran or Bust] Reference
Nothing has been said either about the "Persian revival" - an interest in pre-Islamic Persian culture & history. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Before I chose Late Period Egypt, it was set in Babylon during the reign of Nabonidus and pre-Islamic South Arabia. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Bronze, by Scott Oden. Book review] Reference
Prior to the Taliban's victory, the Kabul Museum was renowned for its collection of more than 6,000 pre-Islamic artifacts. From Wordnik.com. [Destroying The Afghan Past] Reference
Like most Saudis, I know little of pre-Islamic sites, although occasionally amateur archeologists come across such places. From Wordnik.com. [Sabria Jawhar: Saudis Struggle With How to Treat Pre-Islamic Artifacts Unearthed in Saudi Arabia] Reference
Likewise, other lesser known pre-Islamic archeological monuments have fallen victim to industrialization and urbanization. From Wordnik.com. [Jamsheed K. Choksy: Shiism, Nationalism, and the Past Clash in Modern Iran] Reference
Although its origins are undoubtedly pre-Islamic, there have been modifications to make it more appropriate for Muslim users. From Wordnik.com. [Wind of Change] Reference
By "Jahili societies," Qutb was referring to the pre-Islamic, pagan world of Arabia that lived in "ignorance of divine guidance.". From Wordnik.com. [How to Manage Savagery] Reference
Barring Muslim women from education and religious authority, Akram argues, is akin to the pre-Islamic custom of burying girls alive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Similar rationalizations were used by pre-Islamic Arabs who practiced female infanticide, burying their newborn baby daughters alive. From Wordnik.com. [Kamran Pasha: Anwar Al-Awlaki: The Jim Jones of Islam] Reference
Although the practice of wearing hijab has been around since pre-Islamic times, the debate surrounding it has increased in recent years. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Hijablogging: On Burqas and Bans] Reference
Turkish Kurds are persecuted for celebrating Newroz (I think it is pre-Islamic and associated with the ancient Medes, ancestors of the Kurds). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
This bedu tribe of around 500 people speaks a language that belongs to a pre-Islamic south Arabian group and may have lived on the Jidda 'for many centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference
Men wielding pickaxes swarmed the dilapidated Kabul Museum and smashed pre-Islamic statues to rubble-that is, those that hadn't already been looted by the Mujahideen. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
Unfortunately, it is one of the ugly elements of pre-Islamic Arabian culture that continues to reassert itself, despite the Prophet's efforts to eradicate the practice. From Wordnik.com. [Kamran Pasha: "Honor Killing" and Islam] Reference
Those young Iranians had no direct experience or memory of the pre-Islamic regime of the Shah -- its inequities and injustices, and its subservient relationship with Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Dilip Hiro: The Clash of Islam and Democracy in Iran] Reference
That he alone among contemporary Muslim leaders has laid waste his country's pre-Islamic heritage when virtually all other Muslim countries go to great lengths to preserve theirs. From Wordnik.com. ['And Now They're Rubble'] Reference
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