Alaha
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Alaha (ܐܠܗܐ in Syriac script) means the One God in Aramaic (Syriac). Some scholars believe that the Arabic الله Allah was derived from the Syriac term for God. Both terms apply to the God of Abraham (ܐܒܪܗܡ) and the Prophets (ܐܢܒܝܐ) that followed.
According to Genesis, Abraham discovered monotheism when he was in Ur where the main deity was Sin, the moon. Parts of the Hebrew Bible refer to the God of Abraham as Yahweh, or Yah for short. This name has been compared[citation needed] to Iah, a lunar deity of Ancient Egypt.
