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  • IMO this is splitting a hair that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. If you’re going to be going into that much detail over the exact wording used to refer to the Abrahamic god, you’re gonna have to go all the way back to Yahweh being a local warrior god for the Hebrews that imperfectly merged with the chief Canaanite god El (hence all the names that invoke El like Israel, Samuel, Daniel, Elijah, etc.).

    This El is thought to be - by a majority, not definitively - an etymological root of Allah (al-ilah, “il” being the cognate of “El”).

    If we’re going all the way to historical root words, they ultimately worship the same god again, and it’s the chief deity of a now-defunct polytheistic religion.