![]() ![]() Allah has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab), Judaeo-Arabic-speaking Jews, and Arab Christians after the term " al- ilāh" and "Allah" were used interchangeably in Classical Arabic by the majority of Arabs who had become Muslims. Muhammad used the word Allah to indicate the Islamic conception of God. The pre-Islamic Arabs worshipped a supreme deity whom they called Allah, alongside other lesser deities. ![]() The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al- ilāh, which means "the god", and is linguistically related to the Aramaic words Elah and Syriac ܐܲܠܵܗܵܐ (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El ( Elohim) for God. In the English language, the word generally refers to God in Islam. l ɑː/ Arabic: ٱَللَّٰهْ, ʿAlḷāh, IPA: ⓘ) is the common Arabic word for God. For other uses, see Allah (disambiguation).Īllah ( / ˈ æ l. For the Islamic view of God, see God in Islam. This article is about the Arabic word "Allah". ![]()
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