I'm trying my best to research deities worshipped and legendary creatures that are associated with Arab or other closely related Semitic peoples pre-610 CE. Sadly, when looking for English sources that go into detail a majority of them tend to be attempts to peddle the old "the Islamic version of the Abrahamic God is actually a pagan god" argument. When asking others about where to look, they said to read any of them would require me to learn MSA or German. Please, can anyone point me in the right direction of perhaps some papers, essays, books, etc. covering this topic? What I'm looking for specifically is info on deities, religious practices, and religious beliefs at the time involving said deities.
The Kitāb al-Așnām or Book of Idols has been translated into English and is available for free online; this was a c. 800 AD book on pre-Islamic religions in the Arabian Peninsula - granted, written a couple hundred years after the rise of Islam and from a distinctly pro-Islam perspective, so plenty of grains of salt to be taken, but it gives an idea from an Islamic perspective of pre-Islamic religion and mythology at the period.
As another poster (u/AncientHistory) pointed out, al-Kalbī's Kitāb al-Asnām is an important work. He also pointed out some of the problems in using it as a primary source, but I would just like to add that the book was not that well-received even by other Muslim scholars at the time. I'll have to look up the exact citations, however.
General overview
Syria
The Peninsula
I think that's pretty much most I have in my head right now, and I think this will get you a long way. If you really run out of stuff you can just respond to this post or drop me a pm.
The Nabataeans were a people that lived in northwest Arabia and Syria in the classical era (best known for building Petra) and are generally associated with the ancestors of the Arabs. We know a fair a bit about their religious practices from archaeology and inscriptions, see:
The Wikipedia article is also not that bad as a starting point.