How were dogs viewed in pre-islamic Arabia?

How were dogs viewed in pre-islamic Arabia?

>dogs in a inhospitable desert

Dunno, but the idea of dogs being bad had to come from somewhere, right?
Just like Christianity was heavily influenced by Roman and even greek paganism, i'm guessing Islam was influenced by arabic paganism as well

>Dogs follow human
>Dog kills or scares bad animals
>Dog was always loyal to human
>That was before the human got hungry

In Bible dogs are also seen as not pure animals because dogs were a symbol of stupidity. "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." (Proverbs 26:11)

Even in New Testament word dog has a negative meaning. The following is about people who don't get to go to heaven.

Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."

So it is quite possible that Hebrew religion influenced Islam's negative view on dogs.

The muslims hating dogs is just a meme.

Isn't it haram to have a dog inside your house though? Like you have to keep them outside of your domicile?

Yes, since they defile the areas where you pray. Otherwise if you keep them clean and away from praying areas its cool

So you're saying arabs don't like dogs because they used to eat dogs?

Interesting point, and seems reasonable to me
Still makes me wonder why the jews would see them as so terrible, while other people did not

Maybe the jews were just squeamish?

They fucked them just like they fuck goats today.

dogfucking is a white people thing

Is that why muslims always try to poison dogs in the west

They kill more here since they spread disease. Its doesn't mean we hate them. They're pests

>spread disease

>dogs
>on a level with rats and cockroaches
Are there just a fuckton of stray dogs there?

I think they have pariah dogs in Pakistan that live on the outskirts of villages and eat garbage and other small animals

Yes. ALOT

Doesn't excuse your inbred cousins from trying to kill house pets. Next time I see your cousin by my house I'm bashing his head in

islam is anti animal cruelty, dogs are seen as good companions but shouldn't be kept in the house, there's a hadith about a man that saw a thirsty dog so he took his shoe and filled it with water from a well for the dog and went to heaven for that deed

I hate dogs desu. They need to be boiled alive and fed to the chinese

Every major religion seems to be fixated on purity due to evolutionary reasons. Hygiene makes the chances of dying to diseases lower so it increases possibility of survival. Every religion has rituals to "clean" the practitioner of something unholy/unclean.

Also paradises in different religions are described as perfect places in the evolutionary sense. Pure Land Buddhism is a perfect example...

Judaic and islamic religions propably regarded dogs as unclean because of what dogs do. Dogs lick their balls and sniff each others from not-so-clean areas and wild dogs possibly were also influencing the popularized image of dogs as unclean creatures... It is quite understandable why dogs were seen, along with pigs, as dirty animals.

Yes, i get all that
But i guess i should phrase my question differently

Why weren't western pagans so concerned about the uncleanliness of dogs?
Did they just not care?

did Muslims start fucking goats after Islam or pre?
goats probably replaced dogs I guess.
where's the Turks?

This is why Pakistan will never be a prosperous and peaceful country. You're all backwards.

I like dogs. Wild dogs suck

They had a more nature-oriented belief system and thus didn't see themselves as particularly holy or above nature and animals.

Dogs can't sweat, so logically they must have evolved in colder climates.

Ancient civilizations, which started farming earlier, weren't hunters, so they didn't need dogs. These are mostly in north africa and middle east.

Europeans were barbaric and hunters pretty recently history wise, so they have a closer kinship to dogs.

>Swedish education

The Bedouin bred the Saluki to be a hunting dog. There are even hadiths exempting hunting dogs from the general rule of them being unclean.

>Ancient civilizations, which started farming earlier, weren't hunters, so they didn't need dogs.

Wrong on all counts, the earliest evidence of settled humans (Natufian culture, in the Neolithic Levant) shows both hunter-gatherer tendencies and evidence of domesticated dogs

>Excavations in Ashkelon, Israel, unearthed the largest known dog cemetery in the ancient world containing 700 dog skeletons, all of which were anatomically similar to the Canaan dog of modern times. Archaeologists hypothesize that the dogs were revered as sacred animals.