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Isaf

An Arabian idol in the form of a man, brought from Syria, and placed in Es-Safa, near the temple of Mecca. Some say Isaf was a man converted into stone for impiety, and that Mahomet suffered this one “idol” to remain as a warning to his disciples.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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