Meanings
- uncountableWorship of a god or gods that are foreign to one's own land.
There is no allotheism in Islam. Muslims do not anthropomorphise or, conversely, encourage belief in anthropolatry.
1984, Akbar S. Ahmed, David M. Hart, Islam in Tribal Societies: From the Atlas to the Indus, page 83 more examples
I consider that in the first commandment where atheism and polytheism and allotheism are forbidden directly and principally.
1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLCBut we should not forget that the world was yet too young to have arrived at the rigid and sharply-defined systems of polytheism or allotheism to which we are accustomed.
1864, James Gracey Murphy, Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Genesis, page 464The inhabitants, also, of Ur had fallen into polytheism, or, if we may so speak, allotheism, the worship of other gods.
1879, John Heyl Vincent, The lesson commentary on the International lessons for 1880, page 164
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élyos
- Proto-Hellenic*ál͏̌l͏̌os
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
- Englishallo-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰéh₁s
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰh₁sós
- Proto-Hellenic*tʰehós
- Ancient Greekθεός (theós)
- Ancient Greekθεο- (theo-)
- Latintheo-
- Englishtheo-
- Englishtheism
- Englishallotheism
Cite this entry
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