The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

By Mustafa Akyol

St. Martin’s Griffin | 

14/02/2017 | 

288 pages

The Islamic Jesus reveals startling new truths about Islam in the context of the first Muslims and the early origins of Christianity. Muslims and the first Christians―the Jewish followers of Jesus―saw Jesus as not divine but rather as a prophet and human Messiah and that salvation comes from faith and good works, not merely as faith, as Christians would later emphasize. These core beliefs of Jewish Christianity, which got lost in history as a heresy, emerged—as this book shows—in a new religion born in 7th Arabia: Islam. From Jesus’ Jewish followers to the Nazarenes and Ebionites to the Qu’ran’s stories of Mary and Jesus, The Islamic Jesus will reveal links between religions that seem so contrary today. It will also call on Muslims to discover their own Jesus, at a time when they are troubled by their own Pharisees and Zealots.

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