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A woman in Turkey examines the word “Allah,” written in Arabic script on a wall outside Eski Cami. In Malaysia, Christians have used the term “Allah” to refer to god since at least 1650 when the word appeared as a translation from the Dutch word “Godt” in a Dutch-Malay dictionary.

(RNS1-JUNE 26) A woman in Turkey examines the word “Allah,” written in Arabic script on a wall outside Eski Cami. In Malaysia, Christians have used the term “Allah” to refer to god since at least 1650 when the word appeared as a translation from the Dutch word “Godt” in a Dutch-Malay dictionary. For use with RNS-MALAYSIAN-COURT transmitted June 26, 2014. Creative Commons image by Nevit Dilmen