Deity

====Islam====
{{Main|Allah|Ilah|God in Islam|Names of God in Islam}}

[[Ilah]], ''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|ʾIlāh}}'' ({{lang-ar|إله}}; plural: {{lang|ar|آلهة}} ''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|ʾālihah}}''), is an [[Arabic]] word meaning "god".<ref name="Saritoprak">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=isDgI0-0Ip4C&q=ilah|author=Zeki Saritoprak|title=Allah|editor=Oliver Leaman|encyclopedia=The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia|publisher=Routledge|year=2006|page=34|isbn=978-0-4153-2639-1|access-date=16 October 2020|archive-date=4 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004005837/https://books.google.com/books?id=isDgI0-0Ip4C&q=ilah|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cornell">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Vincent J. Cornell|title=God: God in Islam|editor=Lindsay Jones|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Religion|edition=2nd|publisher=MacMillan Reference|volume=5|year=2005|page=724}}</ref> It appears in the name of the monotheistic god of Islam as [[Allah]] (''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|[[allah|al-Lāh]]}}'').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/faithgod.html |title=God |work=Islam: Empire of Faith |publisher=PBS|access-date=18 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327034958/http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/faithgod.html|archive-date=27 March 2014}}</ref><ref>"Islam and Christianity", ''Encyclopedia of Christianity'' (2001): Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews also refer to God as ''Allāh''.</ref><ref name="gardet-allah">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/allah-COM_0047|title=Allah|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam Online|first=L.|last=Gardet|access-date=2 May 2007|editor1-first=P.|editor1-last=Bearman|editor2-first=Th.|editor2-last=Bianquis|editor3-first=C.E.|editor3-last=Bosworth|editor4-first=E.|editor4-last=van Donzel|editor5-first=W.P.|editor5-last=Heinrichs|publisher=Brill Online|archive-date=3 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403114258/https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/allah-COM_0047|url-status=live}}</ref> which literally means "the god" in Arabic.<ref name="Saritoprak"/><ref name="Cornell"/> Islam is strictly monotheistic<ref name="Hammer">{{cite book|last1=Hammer|first1=Juliane|last2=Safi|first2=Omid|title=The Cambridge Companion to American Islam|date=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-107-00241-8|page=213|edition=1st|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=OBPKKFUyZaUC}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> and the first statement of the ''[[shahada]]'', or Muslim confession of faith, is that "there is no ''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|ʾilāh}}'' (deity) but ''{{transliteration|ar|DIN|al-Lāh}}'' (God)",<ref name="Yust">{{cite book|last1=Yust|first1=Karen Marie|last4=Johnson|first4=Aostre N.|last5=Sasso|first5=Sandy Eisenberg|last6=Roehlkepartain|first6=Eugene C.|title=Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions|date=2006|isbn=978-1-4616-6590-8|page=300|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=adMkAgAAQBAJ}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref> who is perfectly unified and utterly indivisible.<ref name="Hammer"/><ref name="Yust"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Piamenta|first1=Moshe|title=The Muslim Conception of God and Human Welfare: As Reflected in Everyday Arabic Speech|date=1983|publisher=Brill Archive|pages=16–17|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=FOIUAAAAIAAJ}}|access-date=28 June 2017|language=en}}</ref>

The term [[Allah]] is used by Muslims for God. The [[Persian language|Persian]] word ''[[Khuda]]'' (Persian: خدا) can be translated as god, lord or king, and is also used today to refer to [[God in Islam]] by [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Urdu]], [[Tat language (Caucasus)|Tat]] and [[Kurdish languages|Kurdish]] speakers. The [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] word for god is [[Tengri]]; it exists as ''Tanrı'' in [[Turkish language|Turkish]].
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