Pre-Islamic Arabia
Worship of Venus deities connected to Inanna/Ishtar was known in Pre-Islamic Arabia right up until the Islamic period. Isaac of Antioch (d. 406 AD) says that the Arabs worshipped 'the Star' ("kawkabta"), also known as Al-Uzza, which many identify with Venus. Isaac also mentions an Arabian deity named Baltis, which most likely is another designation for Ishtar. In pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions themselves, it appears that the deity known as Allat was also a Venusian deity (Inanna/Ishtar). Attar, a male god whose name is a cognate of Ishtar's, is a plausible candidate for the role of Arabian Venus deity too on the account of both his name and his epithet "eastern and western."