02-01-2008, 12:10 PM
Paul Younan Wrote:Arabic Christian literature, before Islam, used the word "Allah"? When the CoE was in places like Yemen before Islam arrived, they called God "Allah." Islam got the name from us, not the other way around. ... Islam has distorted it into a personal name, rather than the title "God". It's the cognate to the Aramaic "Alaha" and the Hebrew "Eloah", for that matter even further back into the Akkadian "Ilu".
Many Sephardic Jews in Spain, Turkey and Syria use "Alaha" (a more pure form than "Dio" and "Dios") instead of Allah in translations of the Tanakh in Ladino, carried over from the Aramaic.