The Islamic View of Jesus

balkanac

REMOVED AS IT HAS BEEN CENSORED BY A NON MUSLIM MODERATOR

hivizman

Balkanac has decided to remove all his (or her) links, but in case anyone is interested, here is a link to the document "The Islamic View of Jesus", which appears to be based on the tafsir of Ibn Kathir:

http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/The%20Islamic%20View%20of%20Jesus.pdf

Hobbes

balkanac wrote: »

REMOVED AS IT HAS BEEN CENSORED BY A NON MUSLIM MODERATOR

Wasn't censored at all by the moderators. he got a warning as his posts appeared to be just linking off to sites with no content in the posts so was asked to reword his future posts. Any mass censorship he did was by himself.

The charter is quite clear on this sort of thing and being Muslim doesn't excuse you from the charter.

However Balkanac has been permanently banned at this time (intially temp, but felt the need to outburst in PM). Any further posts on this thread should be in relation to the topic and not the OP. You can use other forum for that.

hivizman

The issue of the place of Jesus within Islam is something that I find particularly interesting, and on another thread in this forum, I mentioned a recently published book by Todd Lawson The Crucifixion and the Qur'an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought (Oxford: Oneworld, 2009), which addresses the two verses in Sura an-Nisa (4:157-158) that discuss the crucifixion, and shows how Muslim analyses of these verses have taken a wide range of approaches to interpreting their meaning.

A couple of other interesting books are Tariq Khalidi's The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003), which focuses on the post-Qur'anic stories about Jesus in a wide range of Islamic literature, and Irfan Omar (ed.) A Muslim Looks at Christianity: Essays of Mahmoud Ayoub (New York: Orbis Books, 2007), which is a collection of essays by an eminent scholar of comparative religion currently working in the USA.

The main questions I ask are (1) what are the essential differences between the Muslim characterisation of Jesus as a great prophet (possibly second only to Muhammad) and the Christian characterisation of Jesus as God the Son, and (2), given that Muslims believe that Jesus came with a book, the Injil, but that the Gospels in the New Testament are corruptions of the Injil, how much of the teachings of Jesus as set out in the New Testament Gospels are consistent with Islam?

Shinjuku

But don't all muslims want to suicide bomb the western world?

Hobbes

See you in 7 days Shinjuku.. Take that time to read the charter.