Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from Viking boat graves

Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by irrational on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:53AM (#15455751)

But Allah is a cognate of El/Elohim. You could translate it as There is no god except El/Elohim. Just because it uses Arabic characters doesn't mean it can't be translated into English (or Russian) as something other than Allah.

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by taneliv on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:31AM (#15455878)

But if it was literally that sentence, one has to note that it is the beginning of shahada, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada , one of the Islamic creeds. From this perspective the surprise element of the story (if true), is both stronger and clearer to explain.

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Re:Arabic characters found woven into burial costumes from V... by empath75 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:58AM (#15457598)

It’s a specifically Muslim formulation of the idea, though.

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