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'''God''' is | According to [[Islam]], '''Allāh''' is the Creator of the Universe. Allah does not mean 'God' but rather '' 'the God' '' and is thus one of the remnants of [[Pagan Origins of Islam|Islam's pagan origins]]. In the pre-Islamic era, Allah was the supreme creator god of the Arabs.<ref name="EM">[http://www.pantheon.org/articles/a/allah.html "Allah"] - Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online; Accessed June 15, 2007.</ref> Yet he was still only one god among the many others they believed in. The goddesses; ''Allāt'' (the feminine form of “Allah”, meaning '' 'the goddess' ''),<ref>Arne A. Ambros, and Stephan Procházka - [http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/content/19/3/400.extract A Concise Dictionary of Koranic Arabic (p. 306)] - Weisbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3895004006</ref><ref>[http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t125/e1332 Lat, al-] - Oxford Islamic Studies Online</ref><ref>Mify narodov mira 1984. Article: Allat</ref> ''Manāt'', and ''al-‘Uzzá'' were Allah's daughters. | ||
God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the Universe. | God is a deity in [[Theism|theist]] and deist religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in [[monotheism]] (e.g. the Judeo-Christian ''Yahweh''), or a principal deity in polytheism (e.g. the Hindu ''Brahman''). God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the Universe. | ||
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