Arabian Religion before Islam

Well the history texts say that the Arabian lands were Polythestic before the comming of Mohammed. Yet they never go into detail about what kind of gods the ancient Arabs worshiped before Islam. In fact to my understanding the Arabian people were a little known about and were considered a nomadic people moving from trading town to trading town which were based around Oasises.

So would an expert on the subject of Ancient Arabia please enlighten me on what type of gods were worshiped by these Ancient peoples?

The Arabs, especially nomadic Bedouins, practiced a religion which worshiped idolotrous and animistic dieties. Apparently there were over 300 such dieties, which for some made the prospect of simple monotheisism an easier choice. Idols played an important part in the religious of observance of the Arabs, to the extent that Mohammed insisted on the destruction of all idols upon entering Mecca in triumph.

I study on gender. I had read Merlin Stone's book "When God was a Woman". She has been studying on archeology and ancient religions. In her book she writes that Arabians had two important goddesses before Islam. One was Sun Goddess named as "Al Lat" ( It is also written that "Al Lat" meant "Goddess"). The other's name was "Al Uzza" (synonym of Ua Zit). She  adds that acording to Prof. J. B. Pritchard "Al Lat" is the synonym of "Asherah". Asherah was ancient Goddes of many Anotolian, Mesopotamian populations before Abraham's religion's God.