>>40901928 (OP)
Nah , the thing about westerners is that get way tooo latched onto specific words and technical understandings. They try to gotcha muslims by saying stuff like "oh allah existed pre muhammad - it was a moon god etc etc"
But they miss the point, while the word carries weight and meaning according to their own lore - lets be real for a second , its ultimately just a descriptor that could be interchangeable. What Allah is always intended to be is the one true god - pure monotheism is the goal of Islam.
In Gnosticism it would be like Sophia, in Neoplatonism it would be like Nous, in christianity would be like the father. Whatever that underlying face of god is , thats what Allah aims to describe.