Editing Paganism (section)

==== Islam in Arabia ====
{{See also|Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia}}
Arab paganism gradually disappeared during [[Muhammad]]'s era through [[Islamization]].<ref name="sealednectar2">{{citation |title=The sealed nectar: biography of the Noble Prophet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r_80rJHIaOMC&pg=PA245 |first=Saifur Rahman Al |last=Mubarakpuri |year=2005 |publisher=Darussalam Publications |isbn=978-9960-899-55-8 |pages=245–46}}</ref><ref name="online">Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, [https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUrN0B8cvQC&pg=PA139 Tafsir Ibn Kathir Juz' 2 (Part 2): Al-Baqarah 142 to Al-Baqarah 252 2nd Edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102164909/https://books.google.com/books?id=nmUrN0B8cvQC&pg=PA139 |date=2 January 2023 }}, p. 139, MSA Publication Limited, 2009, {{ISBN|1861796765}}. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20090529214150/http://www.fda.gov/fsrscripts/triggerParams.js online])</ref> The sacred months of the Arab pagans were the 1st, 7th, 11th, and 12th months of the Islamic calendar.<ref name="The Sealed Nectar Free Version">Mubarakpuri, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-ppPqzawIrIC&pg=PA129 The Sealed Nectar (Free Version)]{{dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, p. 129</ref> After Muhammad had conquered [[Mecca]] he set out to convert the pagans.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite book |last=Sa'd |first=Ibn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dfnXAAAAMAAJ&q=Hatim |title=Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir, By Ibn Sa'd, Volume 2 |year=1967 |publisher=Pakistan Historical Society |asin=B0007JAWMK |page=380}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>{{citation |title=The Sealed Nectar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ppPqzawIrIC&pg=PA269 |first=Saifur |last=Rahman al-Mubarakpuri |year=2005 |publisher=Darussalam Publications |page=269 |isbn=9798694145923}}</ref><ref name="Mufti Dec 2007 103">{{citation |title=Encyclopaedia of Islam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiAtbfbHgVoC&pg=PA103 |first=M. Mukarram Ahmed |last=Mufti |year=2007 |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd |isbn=978-81-261-2339-1 |page=103}}</ref> One of the last military campaigns that Muhammad ordered against the Arab pagans was the [[Demolition of Dhul Khalasa]]. It occurred in April and May 632 AD, in 10AH of the Islamic Calendar. [[Dhul Khalasa]] is referred to as both an idol and a temple, and it was known by some as the [[Ka'ba]] of Yemen, built and worshipped by polytheist tribes.<ref name=b3>{{cite book |title=Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHufEXRlR6EC&pg=PA297 |first=William |last=Robertson Smith |year=2010 |publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-1-4400-8379-2 |page=297}}</ref><ref name=b2>{{cite book |title=Who Was Jesus?: Conspiracy in Jerusalem |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWzcsddrx_wC&pg=PA146 |first=Kamal |last=S. Salibi |year=2007 |publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks |isbn=978-1-84511-314-8 |page=146}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=When the Moon Split |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJL6gxPUV4EC&pg=PA296 |first=Saifur Rahman Al |last=Mubarakpuri |year=2002 |publisher=DarusSalam |isbn=978-9960-897-28-8 |page=296}}</ref>