Ibn Battuta often experienced culture shock
in regions he visited where the local customs of recently converted
peoples did not fit in with his orthodox Muslim background. Among the
Turks and Mongols, he was astonished at the freedom and respect enjoyed
by women and remarked that on seeing a Turkish couple in a bazaar one
might assume that the man was the woman's servant when he was in fact
her husband.[149] He also felt that dress customs in the Maldives, and some sub-Saharan regions in Africa were too revealing.
Al-Lat ( Arabic : اللات , romanized : Al-Lāt , pronounced [alːaːt] ), also spelled Allat , Allatu and Alilat , is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped under various associations throughout the entire peninsula, including Mecca where she was worshipped alongside Manat and al-'Uzza . The word Allat or Elat has been used to refer to various goddesses in the ancient Near East , including the goddess Asherah-Athirat . Al-Lat was attested in south Arabian inscriptions as Lat and Latan , but she had more prominence in north Arabia and the Hejaz , and her cult reached as far as Syria . [3] The writers of the Safaitic script frequently invoked al-Lat in their inscriptions. She was also worshipped by the Nabataeans and she was associated with al-'Uzza . The presence of her cult was attested in both Palmyra and Hatra . Under Greco-Roman influence, her iconography began to show the attributes of Athena , the Greek goddess of war, as well as her Roman equivalent Min...
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