Ilah
ʾIlāh (
Qur'anic texts or (more rarely) with a full alif
, إلاه.
The term is used throughout the
šahādah
(the Muslim confession of faith) is "There is no god (ʾilāh) except the God (Allāh)."
See also
- Arabian mythology
- El (deity)
- Eloah
- Elohim
- History of Arabia
- Religions of the ancient Near East
- Yahwism
- Historical Vedic Religion
Sources
- Georgii Wilhelmi Freytagii, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Librairie du Liban, Beirut, 1975.
- J. Milton Cowan, The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. 4th edn. Spoken Language Services, Ithaca (NY), 1979.
- References
- ISBN 978-3-447-02002-2.
- ^
Zeki Saritoprak (2006). "Allah". In Oliver Leaman (ed.). The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 9780415326391.
- ^ Vincent J. Cornell (2005). "God: God in Islam". In Lindsay Jones (ed.). Encyclopedia of Religion. Vol. 5 (2nd ed.). MacMillan Reference USA. p. 724.
External links
Look up Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʾil- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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