Goddess of fate, time, and death; third of the three "daughters of Allah" in the Quranic-polemical framing (Q 53:19-22). Per Ibn al-Kalbi, the oldest of the three goddesses — venerated by the Aws and Khazraj tribes of Yathrib (Medina) before the Hijaz-pantheon-extensions of Allāt and al-'Uzza. Principal cult-center at Qudayd on the Red Sea coast between Mecca and Medina, with the cult-stone (a black rock) housed there. The Manāt cult-stone was destroyed by Sa'd ibn Zayd al-Ashhali on Muhammad's orders in 630 CE. The fate-and-death domain follows from the Proto-Semitic etymology *mny "to count, to allot, to apportion fate" — Manāt is "the Apportioner-of-Fate," the goddess who allots the share of life-and-death to each mortal. The Nabataean-cognate Manawat is equated with Greek Tyche (fortune) and Nemesis (allotted-fate-as-retribution) in the Hellenistic-period inscriptions, preserving the cross-cultural fate-and-fortune-goddess complex. The fate-allotment domain structurally parallels the broader Mediterranean female-fate-figure complex (Greek Moirai, Roman Parcae, Norse Norns, Slavic Mokosh-as-spinner), encoding a pan-cultural Bronze-Age-and-Iron-Age female-allotter-of-fate mythologem.