The triad of the Goddesses Al-Uzza, Al-Lat and Menat- an Arabian religion maintained

To be clear, Pre-Islamic Arabian beliefs tended to differ pretty substantially between cities and regions. Widespread and popular is thus a bit of an exaggeration perhaps. Certainly the three gods you named were popular in Mecca, and Al-lat had a prominent shrine in Taif.

Could these deities have become more than just a local cult? Possibly, but your best bet is removing or significantly weakening the influence of the Abrahamic religions on the region. Perhaps a world with more Persian and generally Eastern influences would be more likely to see the ascendancy of these gods (or at least their names, likely their particular attributes would change as needed.)
 
Shoot instead for Nabatea. Combining the worship of Al Uzza, Manat, Al Khutbay, Dusharas, And a few Greek Gods the Nabataean faith was an interesting example of Arab/Greco syncreticism.
 

trurle

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It had been widespread and popular once and evolved. What if this pre-Islamic triple-female goddess-religion defines the Arabian culture later on ?

https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=...OkcaNxM1PcsNCY5xw&sig2=6JM4VtcjoC9TUH5rl4LDPQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_deity#Pre-Islamic

By the time of Islam emergency, the local triple-goddess cults were already losing the ground for the Christianity, by migration, conversion and outright conquest. It was exactly the situation which allowed Muhammad to create the Islam religion. Therefore, retaining triple-goddess group religions will require
1) Weaker Christianity & Buddhism & Zoroastrianism
2) Some virulent idea to be associated with triple-goddess cults. It will be nearly ASB difficult. Tribal compound cults always had a problems with internal inconsistencies, so did not attract a smart scholars who invent ideas. May be most likely is the survival of three-goddesses religion as religion merging with Zoroastrianism, like Shinto religion survived in Buddhism-dominated Japan.
 

Benevolent

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By the time of Islam emergency, the local triple-goddess cults were already losing the ground for the Christianity, by migration, conversion and outright conquest. It was exactly the situation which allowed Muhammad to create the Islam religion. Therefore, retaining triple-goddess group religions will require
1) Weaker Christianity & Buddhism & Zoroastrianism
2) Some virulent idea to be associated with triple-goddess cults. It will be nearly ASB difficult. Tribal compound cults always had a problems with internal inconsistencies, so did not attract a smart scholars who invent ideas. May be most likely is the survival of three-goddesses religion as religion merging with Zoroastrianism, like Shinto religion survived in Buddhism-dominated Japan.

So to keep this, you'll basically need to either weaken Aksum or somehow change their religion back to the hebriac-pagan Agaw faith?

I find it better to just have the cushitic Pastoralist population of Arabia Felix retain a pagan faith, ramp their numbers and destroy the early proselyte communities of other faiths in the region.
 
An outcome where the Muslims lost to the Meccans maybe... but as already pointed out, Christianity was already growing (Muhammad himself consulted a Christian priest after receiving his first revelation). So you need a scenario where those pesky monotheists never gain a foothold in Arabia...
 
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