Allah definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: Muslim name ... Christians as well as by Muslims. According to the Quran, Allah is the creator and judge of mankind, omnipotent, compassionate, and ... profession of faith affirms that there is no god but Allah and emphasizes that he is inherently one: "nothing is like ... the name of God among Arabs and Muslims. Etymology: Arab. ' allah contr. of al-' ilah f. al the + ilah god Webster's 1913 Dictionary Allah Al"lah, n. [ contr. fr. the article al the + ilah ... the Arabs and the Mohammedans generally. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary Allah is the name of God in Islam. N-PROPER
... the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" [syn: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism ... 1817 1. the religious faith of Muslims including belief in Allah as the sole deity and in Muhammad as his prophet ... faith regarded as revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah. 2 the Muslim world. Derivatives: Islamic adj. Islamism n. Islamist ... Their formula of faith is: There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet. 2. The whole body of ...
... s foreign term Etymology: Arabic in sh?' All?h if Allah wills ; God willing Oxford Reference Dictionary int. if Allah wills it. Etymology: Arab. in sa' Allah
... covenant, according to which he, as the recognized speaker of Allah (God), claimed for himself the right to decide in all ... And his decisions and judgments, uttered in the name of Allah, were written down and afterward collected. This Koran, too, became ... the hitherto divided and antagonistic tribes to subject themselves to Allah, Mohammed united these his followers into a religious communion and ...
... armed theocracy. When he died from illness, his disciple Abd Allah succeeded him. Following initial victories, Abd Allah's forces were gradually hunted down by Anglo-Egyptian armies ...
... It grew rapidly after al-Mahdi and his successor, Abd Allah, made it their capital. It was captured by Anglo-Egyptian ... and commercial center of Sudan. Sites of interest include Abd Allah's house (now a museum) and the tomb of al ...
... dream. Probably some species of the oak is intended. (5.) 'Allah, Josh. 24:26. The place here referred to is called ... appropriate to the terebinth than the oak (see below). (2) 'allah (terebinthos, quercus (Vulgate)), apparently a slight variant for 'elah; only ...
... the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" [syn: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism ...