TY - BOOK ID - 10161481 TI - Who is Allah? PY - 2015 SN - 9781474401784 9781474401791 9781474401807 9781474401777 1474401783 1474401775 1474401805 1474401791 9781474401808 9781469623276 1469623277 PB - Edinburgh DB - UniCat KW - 297.12 KW - Islam: theologie; doctrine KW - 297.12 Islam: theologie; doctrine KW - God (Islam) KW - Dieu (Islam) KW - Allah KW - Monotheism (Islam) KW - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10161481 AB - Allah is the most common and contested name in the Islamic tradition ? but who is he? Engaging with the age old question of who is the God of Islam, Bruce B. Lawrence stakes out the historical nuance of Allah throughout the past 1500 years, from the earliest mention of his name to his appropriation by cyberspace. It introduces a broad range of perspectives, practices and problems linked to Allah, including debates that are intra-religious as well as inter-religious, concerning differences among Muslims as well as between Muslims and non-Muslim others. Chapters cover the range of Muslim perspectives on Allah and tackle such topics as war in the name of Allah and controversies about the use of the name Allah/ God. Throughout the author highlights the need to look at Islam with fresh eyes and to understand Allah/ God with dispassionate insight ER -