96. Pre-Islamic Arabia, with Valentina Grasso
Byzantium & Friends
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The Blurred Definition of Polytheism in Arabia
There's a kind of breakdown in the distinction between polytheism and monotheism. People were supposed to not really convert to monotheism to become followers of this new and syncretistic, I don't know if I want to use this term - fate. So we have very blurred nomanglature, very blurred terminology to define this god. We see also something similar in the jazz when the 6th century CE, when all the polytheistic descriptions seem to have been erased and disappeared. There is just no one accept the definition of these terms at the moment.
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