Steve Young ZGH

A quick view of the term Allah for non Muslims

For Muslims, God is unparalleled and without equal. They try to think and talk of God without either making Him into a thing or a projection of the human self. The Koran stays away from this by at all times shifting pronouns to prevent believers from unintentionally reifying God and making any material view of His divine self.
God is often referred to in Arabic language as Allah to distinguish Him from ilah, which may refer to any of the pagan gods formerly worshiped in Arabia. Just as one might say in English that the French or Germans praise God, not Dieu or Gott, so you ought to properly state that Muslims worship God,and that Allah is merely the term for God (which has a capital G) in their Arabic language. Giving a different name to the one God worshipped by the followers of Mohammed inaccurately means that their God differs from the one God worshipped by Jews or Christians.
The 2 main foundations of Muslim faith are God's revelations to Mohammed, termed as a Quran, by means of Arabic word Qur'an, or "recitation"; as well as the records about Muhammad's life and actions, that happen to be known as the hadith, by way of Arabic word for "report." The central miracle of Islam is Allah's revelation to Mohammed, whose human fallibilities as being a mere mortal are repeatedly mentioned from inside the Quran.
The revelations that constitute the Koran were revealed in a period of in excess of 2 full decades in two places. The most important revelations from the period of Muhammad's stay in Mecca are short and incantatory verses of striking poetic beauty. The later revelations out of the time period after Muhammad immigrated to Medina are longer, legalistic texts appropriate to a wonderful developing community of believers trying to find rules.
Muhammad and his awesome followers initially committed the revelations to memory, but due to the fact revelations grew in number and complexity, some were written down on whatever materials were in front of them. After the Prophet died, his followers were pressed to preserve the purity belonging to the revelations and did start to commit to writing the Holy koran. In line with the traditional view, a uniform written text of the revelations to Muhammad was collected and collated some twenty years after his death.
The Koran just like a book is comparable in length to qualify for the Gospels. Its full of 114 chapters (each labeled as in Arabic a sura) of varying length. It opens with the Fatiha, a spectacular short sacred text that serves as an invocation in lots of situations;