Allah as a lunar deity

The whole notion is considered speculative and without basis in the archaeological record of the development of religion on the Arabian peninsula.

[15] More recent scholars have rejected this view, partly because it is speculation but also because of the Nabataean origins of Hubal,[16] a non-native deity imported into the Southern Arabian shrine – one which may have already been associated with Allah.

"[7] Robert Morey's book The Moon-god Allah in the Archeology of the Middle East claims that Al-‘Uzzá is identical in origin to Hubal, whom he asserts to be a lunar deity.

In 1996 Janet Parshall, in syndicated radio broadcasts, asserted that Muslims worship a moon god.

"[20] In addition to books and pamphlets, the 'moon-god Allah' theory has been widely disseminated online through visual media such as memes.

However, recent research from various sources has proven that the "evidence" used by Morey was of the statue retrieved from an excavation site at Hazor, of which there is no connection to "Allah" at all.

[22] Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) calls the Moon-God theories of Allah evangelical "fantasies" that are "perpetuated in their comic books".

Muhammad, for fundamentalist Christians, remains an impostor who commissioned his companions to copy words of the Bible as they sat in dark inaccessible places, far removed from public gaze.

Ibn Hisham notes that Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, leader of the anti-Islamic army, glorified Hubal after their perceived victory at Uhud: When Abū Sufyān wanted to leave he went to the top of the mountain and shouted loudly saying, ‘You have done a fine work; victory in war goes by turns.