To Use “God” or “Allah”?
Recently there was a discussion on the American Academy of Religion listserve’s “Islam” section on whether “Allah” is simply a noun or a proper name of God and whether English-speaking Muslims should use “God” instead of “Allah.” As the majority seemed to agree that “Allah” is Arabic for God, as “K...
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oai:doaj.org-article:fe3b29fefbd3409d81680a77342374b02021-12-02T17:26:04ZTo Use “God” or “Allah”?10.35632/ajis.v26i4.13632690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/fe3b29fefbd3409d81680a77342374b02009-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1363https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 Recently there was a discussion on the American Academy of Religion listserve’s “Islam” section on whether “Allah” is simply a noun or a proper name of God and whether English-speaking Muslims should use “God” instead of “Allah.” As the majority seemed to agree that “Allah” is Arabic for God, as “Khoda” is in Urdu and Persian, there was no agreement on using “God” instead of “Allah.” But what I did not see discussed was howtheQur’an presents the term Allah; after all, it uses this term about 980 times.1 Admittedly there was one attempt to bring in al-Ghazali’s theological stance, but it was pursued no further than “Allah is God’s proper name.” ... Zakyi IbrahimInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 26, Iss 4 (2009) |
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Recently there was a discussion on the American Academy of Religion listserve’s
“Islam” section on whether “Allah” is simply a noun or a proper name
of God and whether English-speaking Muslims should use “God” instead of
“Allah.” As the majority seemed to agree that “Allah” is Arabic for God, as
“Khoda” is in Urdu and Persian, there was no agreement on using “God”
instead of “Allah.” But what I did not see discussed was howtheQur’an presents
the term Allah; after all, it uses this term about 980 times.1 Admittedly
there was one attempt to bring in al-Ghazali’s theological stance, but it was
pursued no further than “Allah is God’s proper name.” ...
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