Hi comp-quran mailing list members, I would be interested to know people's thoughts on this. Here is an interesting thread I have copied and pasted from the Quran Arabic Corpus message board (see: http://corpus.quran.com/wordmorphology.jsp?location=2:163:2)
What do you all think of this? Any good information / references on the etymology for this? --------------------------------------- Original Thread: Idris 7th December, 2009 Isn't the root of Allah, alif-lam-ha, the same root as in: 2:163:2? http://corpus.quran.com/wordmorphology.jsp?location=(2:163:2) Mourad Diouri 7th April, 2010 Kais - I'd appreciate to know your thoughts and any credible research about the etymology of the word Allah. As far as I know there are two opinions: 1. It's derived from أله 2. It is not a contraction of الاله and is non-derivated word. tufail ahmed 2nd September, 2010 salam,If ALLAH is not constraction of AL- ILAH then why most of translators have translated as THE GOD? Kais 2nd September, 2010 w/salam, Also interesting when discussion the etymology here is the name of the false pre-Islamic goddess "Al-lat"... See: http://corpus.quran.com/concept.jsp?id=allat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-lat
