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The name Allah, as the Quran itself is witness, was well known in pre-Islamic Arabia.
Indeed, both it and its feminine form, Allat, are
found not infrequently among the theophorous
names in inscriptions from North Arabia.[7]
The 19th-century scholar Julius Wellhausen also viewed
the concept of Allah (al-ilah, the god)" to be a form of
abstraction originating from Meccas local gods.[8]
Alfred Guillaume notes that the term al-ilah (the God)
ultimately derives from the Semitic root used as a generic
term for divinity.
Islamic scholars have rejected these claims, one even calling them insulting.[3] It is argued that Allah is just the
word for God in Arabic, which ultimately derives from
the same root as the Hebrew words "El" and "Elohim",
both used in the Book of Genesis. Sociologist Lori Peek
writes that, Allah is simply the Arabic word meaning
God. In fact people who speak Arabic, be they Christians,
Jews or Muslims, often say 'Allah' to describe God, just
as God is called 'Gott' in German and 'Dieu' in French.[1]
While other gods were certainly referred to using this epithet, this is equally true of the Hebrew words. The Biblical commandment You shall have no other gods before
me uses the same word, Elohim, to refer to the other
gods that is used for the creator god.[4] It is also true of the
English, French and other European-language words for
God. Indeed, the English word "God" evolved from pagan Germanic terms for invocation; the Latin word Deus,
from which Dieu derives, can be traced to the same
root as Dyeus, which gives the names of the ancient IndoEuropean divinities Zeus, Jove and Dyaus Pitar.
Turkish historians tend to stress the antiquity of the crescent (not star-and-crescent) symbol among the early Turkic states in Asia.[17] In Turkish tradition, there is an Ottoman legend of a dream of the eponymous founder of
the Ottoman house, Osman I, in which he is reported to Farzana Hassan sees these views as an extension of longhave seen a moon rising from the breast of a Muslim standing Christian Evangelical claims that Islam is pajudge whose daughter he sought to marry. When full, gan and that Muhamamad was an impostor and deceiver,
it descended into his own breast. Then from his loins
there sprang a tree, which as it grew came to cover the
Literature circulated by the Christian
whole world with the shadow of its green and beautiful
Coalition perpetuates the popular Christian bebranches. Beneath it Osman saw the world spread out
lief about Islam being a pagan religion, borbefore him, surmounted by the crescent.[18]
rowing aspects of Judeo-Christian monotheism
Islamic ags containing the calligraphy of the Quran were
by elevating the moon god Hubal to the rank
commonly used by the Mughal Emperor Akbar, it was the
of Supreme God, or Allah. Muhammad, for
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had sons[37] and that the local deities of al-Uzz, Mant
and al-Lt were His daughters.[38] The Meccans possibly
associated angels with Allah.[39][40] Allah was invoked in
times of distress.[40][41] Muhammads father's name was
Abd-Allh meaning the slave of Allh.[40]
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In Islamic fundamentalism
In 2001, Osama bin Laden called America the modern Hubal. He referred to allies of America as hypocrites who all stood behind the head of global unbelief, the Hubal of the modern age, America and its
supporters[44][45] Al-Qaeda's then-number two, Ayman
al-Zawahiri, repeated the phrase (hubal al-'asr) in describing America, during his November 2008 message
following Barack Obama's election to the presidency.[46]
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See also
Termagant
God in Islam
Ancient Semitic religion
Arabian mythology
Dagon
Yarikh
Sin (mythology)
References
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