The words El, Elah, Elohei and Elohim are pre Abrahamic west Semitic generic terms for a God or for many Gods. In these various forms they appear almost 3,000 times in the Hebrew Bible. But for Jews ...

In the days of Prophet Abraham, the religions of the Near East and India had hundreds of gods, and hundreds of names for their gods. For those religions that trace their prophets back to Prophet ...

Until earlier this year, one 19-year-old student from the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, was known as Shohrukh to his friends and family. But he recently decided to ditch his "purely Tajik" first name and ...

(Reuters) – Islamic banking is based on core principles of the religion. So it is striking that some banks are removing the word “Islam” from their names – a sign of both the potential of Islamic ...

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu 'alyhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger. The ...

At the 2020 Grammys, DJ Khaled announced that he had just welcomed a baby boy named Alam (which means “the world”) — but he’s far from the only fan of the beautiful Arabic name with Muslim roots.

Linguistically, the word Tawheed, in Arabic, means unification (to make something one). Islamically, it is in reference to Allah being singled out alone, in all that is particular to Him. The opposite ...