A quick view of the term Allah for non Muslims
For Muslims, God is singular and without having equal. They attempt to think and converse about God without either making Him into a thing or a projection of the human self. The Koran stays away from this by at all times switching pronouns to prevent believers from unwittingly reifying The almighty and promoting any physical concept of His divine self.
God is named in Arabic as Allah to differentiate Him totally from ilah, that may refer to any of the false gods once worshiped in Arabia. Just as one might say in English that the French or Germans worship God, not Dieu or Gott, so you ought to properly point out that Muslims worship God,and that Allah is simply the term for God (which has a capital G) in their Arabic language. Giving a different name to the one God worshipped by the followers of Mohammed mistakenly signifies that their God differs from the one God worshipped by Jews or Christians.
The 2 main major foundations of Muslim faith are God's revelations to Mohammed, referred to as the Koran, with all the Arabic word Qur'an, or "recitation"; as well as the records about Muhammad's life and actions, that are the hadith, coming from a Arabic word for "report." The central miracle of Islam is God's revelation to Muhammad, whose human fallibilities as a mere human are repeatedly mentioned belonging to the Quran.
The revelations that comprise the Koran were revealed for more than 2 full decades in 2 places. The very first revelations coming from the period of Muhammad's stay in Mecca (also know in the old testament as becca) are short and incantatory verses of striking poetic beauty. The later revelations originating from a period after Muhammad immigrated to Medina are a bit longer, legalistic texts necessary to a new flourishing community of believers trying to find rules and regulations.
Muhammad with the exceptional followers initially committed the revelations to memory, but as far as revelations grew in number and complexity, some were written down on whatever materials were at hand. As soon as the Prophet died, his followers were pressed to preserve the purity associated with the revelations and did start to write down the Holy quran. As per the traditional view, a uniform written text associated with the revelations to Muhammad was collected and collated some twenty years after his death.
The Koran as being a book can be compared in length to go to the Gospels. Its full of 114 chapters (each labeled as in Arabic a sura) of varying length. It opens with the Fatiha, a beautiful short supplication that may serve as an invocation the majority of situations;