The word 'Islam' in Arabic means submission to the will of God. Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims believe there is one true God Allah (the Arabic word for God). Muslims believe that ...

Allah never self-identified using an English pronoun, so there's no wiggle room to call Allah she. That's what the pushback would say. SHAPIRO: I could imagine a hundred arguments in response to that.

“Allah” in Arabic is equivalent to El, the name of an ancient Canaanite Deity, and as Hebrew and Arabic are related languages, it has the same meaning in both languages.

Some Muslim women are using feminine pronouns to refer to God. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Hafsa Lodi, who wrote about this movement in The Revealer, about what's driving this.