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My grandpa was born a Moslem and one of my two best friends is Saudi Moslem converted to Christianity. I think many sincere Moslems are trying to find God and I'm not sure Allah's name is from the Arabian moon-god "Ilah" but there does seem to be a case to be made for exactly that. Remember most archaeologists aren't believers:

In Old Testament times, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), the last king of Babylon, built Tayma, Arabia as a centre of moon god worship. After the second world war, archaeologists reported a Moon Temple in southern Arabia. Symbols of the crescent moon, twenty-one inscriptions of the name Sin and even an idol, possibly of the moon god himself were found. The temple seemed to have been used perhaps until the time of Mohammed. Archaeologists have discovered thousands of inscriptions from walls and rocks in Northern Arabia and other temples in Southern Arabia and Yemen. Reliefs and votive bowls used in worship of the daughters of Allah have also been found. The three daughters were depicted with a crescent moon above them. Worship of the moon god must have remained the main cult throughout Arabia until the Moslem conquests.

Is allah the God of the Bible?

Strongs # 427 Hebrew: ‘allah (al-law’) variation of 424, oak, terebinth

(Ezek 6:13 KJV) Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

Allah, the moon-god

The cult of the moon-god

An idol of the moon-god from all four sides, notice the crescent moon carved in his chest

Surely you must see the foolishness in trying to redefine someone else's religion for them!

One of the strongest principles of Islam is their hostility to any form of idol worship. That is why, many of the religious will not even permit themselves to be photographed; why the images of their rulers--the religious ones--do not ordinarily appear on their coins or money.

The Koran defines the God that it recognizes as the same God who dealt with Noah, with Moses, with Abraham; the God who decreed Mary's immaculate conception of Jesus. It makes no more sense to try to redefine the God of the Koran in terms of some earlier idol, than it would to redefine the God of the Old or New Testament in terms of some idol, that some earlier people called "God." You cannot redefine other people's faith, and you destroy your credibility by trying to do so.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site