In Arabia, the sun god was viewed as
a female goddess and the moon as the
male god. As has been pointed out by
many scholars such as Alfred Guilluame, the moon god was called by various names, one of which was Allah! (Islam, p. 7). The name Allah was used as the personal name of the moon god, in addition to other titles that could be
given to him. Allah, the moon god, was married to the sun goddess. Together they
produced three goddesses who were
called "the daughters of Allah." These
three goddesses were called Al-Lat, Al-
Uzza, and Manat. The daughters of Allah, along with Allah and the sun goddess were
viewed as "high" gods. That is, they
were viewed as being at the top of
the pantheon of Arabian deities. "Along with Allah, however, they worshipped a host of lesser gods and "daughters of Al-lah" (Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend, I:61)".

It should not come as a surprise that the word "Allah" was not something invented by Muhammad or revealed for the first time in the Quran.The well-known Middle East scholar
H.A.R. Gibb has pointed out that the reason that Muhammad never had to explain who Allah was in the Quran is that his listeners had already heard about Allah long before Muhammad was ever born (Mohammedanism: An Historical Survey, New York: Mentor Books, 1955, p.38).
Dr. Arthur Jeffery, one of the foremost
Western Islamic scholars in modern
times and professor of Islamic and
Middle East Studies at Columbia
University, notes:

"The name Allah, as the Quran itself is
witness, was well known in pre-
Islamic Arabia. Indeed, both it and its
feminine form, Allat, are found not
infrequently among the theophorous
names in inscriptions from North Africa" (Islam: Muhammad, and His
Religion, New York: The Liberal Arts
Press, 1958, p. 85).

The word "Allah" comes from the
compound Arabic word, al-ilah. Al is
the definite article "the" and ilah is an
Arabic word for "god." It is not a
foreign word. It is not even the Syriac
word for God. It is pure Arabic. (There is an interesting discussion of the
origins of Allah, in "Arabic
Lexicographical Miscellanies" by J.
Blau in the Journal of Semitic Studies,
Vol. XVII, #2, 1972, pp. 173-190). Neither is Allah a Hebrew or Greek
word for God as found in the Bible.
Allah is a purely Arabic term used in
reference to an Arabian deity.
Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and
Ethics I:326, T & T Clark, states:
'"Allah" is a proper name, applicable
only to their [Arabs'] peculiar God. ' According to the Encyclopedia of
Religion: '"Allah" is a pre-Islamic name . . .
corresponding to the Babylonian
Bel' (Encyclopedia of Religion, I:117
Washington DC, Corpus Pub., 1979). For those who find it hard to believe
that Allah was a pagan name for a
peculiar pagan Arabian deity in pre-
Islamic times, the following
quotations may be helpful: "Allah is found . . . in Arabic inscriptions
prior to Islam" (Encyclopedia
Britannica, I:643). "The Arabs, before the time of
Mohammed, accepted and
worshipped, after a fashion, a
supreme god called
Allah" (Encyclopedia off Islam, I:302,
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1913, Houtsma).

"Allah was known to the pre-
Islamic . . . Arabs; he was one of the
Meccan deities" (Encyclopedia off
Islam, I:406, ed. Gibb). "Ilah . . . appears in pre-Islamic
poetry . . . By frequency of usage, al-
ilah was contracted to Allah,
frequently attested to in pre-Islamic
poetry" (Encyclopedia off Islam,
III:1093, 1971). "The name Allah goes back before Muhammad" (Encyclopedia of World
Mythology and Legend, I:41, Anthony
Mercatante, New York, The Facts on
File, 1983).

"The origin of this (Allah) goes back to
pre-Muslim times. Allah is not a
common name meaning "God" (or a
"god", and the Muslim must use
another word or form if he wishes to
indicate any other than his own peculiar deity" (Encyclopedia of
Religion and Ethics, I:326, Hastings). To the testimony of the above
standard reference works, we add
those of such scholars as Henry
Preserved Smith of Harvard
University who has stated: "Allah was already known by name to
the Arabs" (The Bible and Islam: or,
The Influence of the Old and New
Testament on the Religion of
Mohammed, New York, Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1897, p. 102). Dr. Kenneth Cragg, former editor of the
prestigious scholarly journal Muslim
World and an outstanding modern
Western Islamic scholar, whose works
are generally published by Oxford
University, comments: "The name Allah is also evident in
archeological and literary remains of
pre-Islamic Arabia" (The Call of the
Minaret, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1956, p. 31)

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