Asked if Muslims worship the same Almighty as Jews and Christians, President Bush replied several months ago, “I believe we worship the same God.” The Islamic deity, known as Allah, in other words, is ...
To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...
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Pop quiz: Which of the following names represents a nonsectarian, universal deity? Allah, Dios, Gott, Dieu, Elohim, Gud, or Jesus? If you answered “none of the above,” you are right as a matter of ...
Allah can no longer be used by a Christian newspaper in Malaysia to refer to God after a landmark court ruling on Monday, reversing a decision made four years previously that maintained the term ...
No one can accuse Jack Miles of shying away from ticklish subjects. Following two acclaimed biographies, the Pulitzer Prize-winning “God: A Biography” (1995) and “Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God” ...
THE FIRST tenet of Islam is La ilaha ill’ allah—“There is no deity but God.” Allah is simply the word for God in Arabic and several other languages, including Malay. But Malaysia’s home ministry ...
For nearly 200 years non-Muslim residents of present-day Malaysia used the Arabic and Bahasa word "Allah" to refer to God. Seven years ago, the government began an unnecessary and provocative push to ...
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