In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...

Two years ago, The Herald, a publication of the Malaysian Roman Catholic Church, filed suit for the right to translate the word “God” as “Allah” in their Malay-language edition, after the government ...

Cape Cod, MA. If you google “Allah” and “Christian” and “Malaysia” together today, you will come up with a number of websites, including the BBC and Wall Street Journal, reporting the news today ...

To read Abd-Allah’s full essay “One God, Many Names,” go to the Nawawi Foundation’s Web site, www.nawawi.org; click on “Learning” and then on “Learn More.” An Islamic scholar spoke to a crowd of about ...

In Islamic tradition creation describes a universe populated by three main intelligent beings created by Allah: Angels (from light), Jinn (from fire), and Humans (from earth clay). The Jinn were ...

In a world teeming with diverse cultures, traditions, and spiritual paths, one central theme persists: the essence of ...

Malaysia’s highest court has rejected a challenge from the Catholic Church seeking to overturn a ban on non-Muslims using the word “Allah” to refer to God. But after the Federal Court announced its ...

Painter is a retired dentist living in Salem. In Cody Lowe's April 17 column, "Conference promotes evangelism etiquette," I noticed that he quoted Joe Dib. Dib leads a Northern Virginia outreach to ...

In the fall of 2008, I got a chance to ask one of the Muslim world's most prominent clerics, Sheikh Habib Ali al-Jifri, founder and director of the Tabah Foundation, a question of great interest to me ...

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