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ajiss-1444	Farghal, Mohammed	Arabic, Islam, and the Allah Lexicon: How Language Shapes Our Conception of God by John A. Morrow, ed. (USA: Edwin Melton Press, 2006. 317 pages.	2008.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1310	40	33	Her empirical study on the frequency of using Allah-featuring expressions by informants from different Arab countries shows striking similarities in the heavy use of such familiar pan-Arab expressions as bismillaah (in the name of Allah), ’al- 140 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 25:4 PDF created with pdfFactory trial version www.software-partners.co.uk http://www.software-partners.co.uk http://www.software-partners.co.uk hamdu lillaah (Praise be to Allah), ’inšaa’ ’allaah, and wallaah (By Allah), regardless of whether they live in an Arab or a foreign country. Surprisingly, such languages as Persian and Urdu, which are spoken by non-Arab Muslim communities, noticeably lag behind in the employment of the Allah lexicon, as they favor the use of the native word khuda (God) instead of Allah.	cache/ajiss-1444.pdf	txt/ajiss-1444.txt