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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. Part of a series on Islam Allah (God in Islam) Allah Jalla Jalālah in Arabic calligraphy Theology Allah Names Attributes Phrases and expressions Islam (religion) Throne of God Sufi metaphysics Theology Schools of Islamic theology Oneness Kalam Anthropomorphism and corporealism ...
Names of God in Islam (Arabic: ... On the other hand, there is no universal agreement among Islamic exegesis scholars, as to how many as a name of God, ...
God is a universal god rather than a local, tribal or parochial one; an absolute who integrates all affirmative values and brooks no evil. [151] Ash'ari theology, which dominated Sunni Islam from the tenth to the nineteenth century, insists on ultimate divine transcendence and holds that divine unity is not accessible to human reason.
Allah—meaning 'the God' in Arabic—is the word for God in Islam. [37] The word Allah has been used by Arabic people of different religions since pre-Islamic times. More specifically, it has been used as a term for God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and Arab Christians. God has many names in Islam.
Islam's most fundamental concept is a strict monotheism called tawḥīd. God is described in the surah Al-Ikhlas as: "Say: He is God, the One; God, the Eternal, the Absolute; He begot no one, nor is He begotten; Nor is there to Him equivalent anyone."
According to Islamic belief, Allah is the most common word to represent God, [57] and humble submission to his will, divine ordinances and commandments is the pivot of the Muslim faith. [12] "He is the only God, creator of the universe, and the judge of humankind."
God, according to Islam, is a universal God, rather than a local, tribal or parochial one and is an absolute that integrates all affirmative values. [6] Islamic intellectual history can be understood as a gradual unfolding of the manner in which successive generations of believers have understood the meaning and implications of professing ...
God's oneness refers to God's indivisibility and uniqueness (as there is no second God), the latter insofar as God's essential attributes are not shared by any other being or entity. [ 20 ] Among Islamic thinkers, many disagreements existed over how God's oneness related to God's essence, whether it was an attribute, and if it was an attribute ...