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So I located a passage from the earliest English translation of Quran from 1734.  It apparently was translated from a Latin version of the Quran.  It uses the word God instead of Allah; presumably the Latin used "Deus" and not Allah.  So our Christian forefathers had no problem seeing the God Muslims worshiped as the monotheistic God they worshiped or that the Jews worshiped.

The God of the Old Testament is very different from the God of the New Testament, and yet I can't imagine any Jew I know who wouldn't take offense at being asked at which temple he worshiped Yahweh.

The core here is belief in one creator God and no other gods beside him.

Pickthall uses Allah and I couldn't find any reasons why, except perhaps that it was commissioned by the ruler of Hyderabad and was written there.[b] Perhaps it was common in India for Muslims to refer to Allah owing to the polytheistic culture. [/b] (Of course there are Indian Christians who must have a native tongue word for God, but I am totally out of my depth on this subcontinent.)[/quote]
I challenge you to find a non-Arab Muslim society that uses any other word for God - other than Allah. [/quote]

As a child I was taught in islamic sunday school to use "Allah" instead of "God" to distinguish our God from the God of other faiths. In Islam, the concept that God is one, has no trinitarian natures or persons within him, is crucial. The risk of saying "God" is that others may consider Islam's God to be the trinitarian God of Christianity.[/quote]

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