Jesus in the Quraan

Re: Jesus in the Quraan


25 times in 15 Surats, including among them the Surat u Maryam, or "The Chapter of Mary", which deals with the personage of the putative mother of Christ. A number of Qu'ranic passages dealing with either Mary or Christ are quite close in language to that found within corresponding Christian canon.

Unifying the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic traditions are the concepts of monotheism, a covenant with that theism's deity, and descent from Abraham, thus, the term "Abrahamic Mythopaeia".

What is demonstrated is that Islamic tradition amounts to a synthesis of traditions extant in the Arab world during the 7th Century, traditions which included Sumerian and Babylonian antecedents, Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and and assortment of Ptolemaic/Egyptian, other pagan, and animist traditions.

While there are earlier fragments - some of contradictory nature - the earliest known complete Qu'ran dates to around the end of the 10th Century. Tracing forward from earlier fragments and other writings, it does appear the Qu'ran essentially had developed an accepted canon perhaps as much as 2 centuries before that, or somewhere in the neighborhood of 100-150 years following the time of Muhammed.