Translations:Manāt/12/en

As for Her association with manāyā (fate) derived from the same root as Her name, there is little if anything in the Islamic tradition that explicitly supports such identifications and links. But its unlikely that all of the material in the Muslim tradition relating to the three Goddesses is the result of mere speculation on names found in the Quran. I do think that the three Goddesses may have been worshipped in the Mecca region during the 6th century but there was a process whereby Mohammad gradually redefined and thus diminished the Gods of his opponents, a process that culminated in the denial of their existence. Redefining them from the Gods the ancients understood them to be to just jinn, or angels, or identifying them with their altars and statues. The details we have in the Islamic tradition are so fragmentary, lack a real context, and are reported with variants and inconsistencies that make it difficult to see their significance for any general discussion of Arabian religion before Islam.