حقيقة القربان و الؤاد في شمال و جنوب الجزيرة العربية

Abstract EN

This paper deals with the subject of child offerings to the Gods and their infanticide in some parts of the Arabian Peninsula, both in the North and in the South, by their parents for religious, economic, religious or societal reasons, and comparing or elucidating similarities between Sacrificial offerings and infanticide as a fact or myth have been mentioned in mythology books and sources.

To fully understand the situation of females in the Arabian Peninsula from the tenth century B.

C.

to the seventh century A.

D.

(first century AH), we did our best to cover the relatively scarce amount of information concerning the state of females, and especially infant girls, by consulting various types of references that would help shed light on female sacrifices in those societies.