Muslims have no monopoly over “Allah”

Anwar Ibrahim writing in the Wall Street Journal: “Few Muslims around the world would endorse the claim that we have a monopoly on the word ‘Allah.’ It is accepted that the word was already in the lexicon of pre-Islamic Arabs. Arabic’s sister Semitic languages also refer to God as ‘Allah’: namely, ‘Elaha’ in Aramaic, and ‘Elohim’ in Hebrew.”