In my previous post I suggested that the God of ancient Israel -- known to Israelites as Yahweh -- lived for centuries in a polytheistic milieu and may well have had a goddess wife named Asherah. This ...

I refer to Kamarul Jaman's short letter in reply to my earlier letter. He wrote that in Arabic, Allah has a special meaning of being 'a supernatural being that is not begotten nor begets' and that ...

A Viking-age woven band of silk displays patterns in silver thread discovered to be Arabic script Annika Larsson/ Uppsala University Editor's note, October 16, 2017: Stephennie Mulder, an associate ...

Islamic art historians and archaeologists are calling into question a Swedish medieval textile expert’s claim that the word “Allah” has been found on a 10th century Viking funeral garment discovered ...

IN response to the letter from Robert Birch, in the Echo on December 29, I am slightly confused. IN response to the letter from Robert Birch, in the Echo on December 29, I am slightly confused. Is the ...

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. 1) The Arabic language is one of the Semitic languages.