One God, Many Names

Everyone needs to read this article (see link below), especially if you're involved in any type of Islamic outreach (a.k.a. da'wah). Based on some inexcusable misconceptions that I've come across, I feel that this is probably the single most important article that Muslims involved in da'wah need to read - and it certainly wouldn't hurt if non-Muslims read it as well. It's a very timely, thoughtful and highly relevant article for Muslims living in an English-speaking country.

One God, Many Names, by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah

This official description of this Nawawi Foundation paper is as follows:

“This paper addresses the primordial origin of the divine names of God in order to establish the equivalency of the Biblical ‘God’ to Islam’s ‘Allah’ and the need for American Muslims to embrace both. While Muslims affirm that they worship the ‘God of Abraham,’ recently America’s religious right has denied this common ground. This point is aided by English-speaking Muslims’ avoidance of the word ‘God,’ due to an erroneous assumption that ‘Allah’ alone carries legitimacy.”