Romain Francis Butin

“ Most of Abrabanel's works date from the last years of his life, when, on account of his misfortunes, he found more leisure for collecting and ordering his thoughts. Abrabanel knew Plato and Aristotle, and is often ranked among the Jewish philosophers. His philosophy, however, was intended by him simply as a means of defending his religious convictions. He can hardly be said to have written any work professedly philosophical, with the possible exception of a juvenile treatise on the form of the natural elements ”

“ Let it be noted that although Allah is an Arabic term, it is used by all Moslems, whatever be their language, as the name of God.
D'Herbelot, Bibliothèque Orientale (Maastricht, 1776) . s.v. Allah; Smith, The Religion of the Semites, (2d ed. London, 1901) ; Lagrange, Etudes sur les Religions Sémitiques (Paris, 1903) . ”

“ The notion of Allah in Arabic theology is substantially the same as that of God among the Jews, and also among the Christians, with the exception of the Trinity, which is positively excluded in the Koran, cxii: "Say God, is one God, the eternal God, he begetteth not, neither is he begotten and there is not any one like unto him." ”