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Islam A Guide for Jews and Christians

ISLAM A GUIDE FOR JEWS AND CHRISTIANS

This book is simple and rather direct:

to provide a reader whose cultural and religious formation has been Jewish or Christian with a way of approaching the body of belief and practice called Islam.

 In The Monotheists I place Islam as an equal at the side of Judaism and Christianity and attempt, in considerable detail, to contextualize each with the others in the hope of illuminating all three.

 Here, the primary focus is Islam, and the other two monotheistic systems are cited only to the extent that they cast light on the faith and practices of the Muslims, the least known and certainly least understood of the three monotheistic faiths.

My objective is not to reduce Islam to Judaism or Christianity (or some combination of them) in order to make it intelligible to non-Muslims, but to enter Islam through the same door Muhammad did.

After he had had his first experience of the supernatural, he went, puzzled and frightened, to a relative of his wife, who had “read the Scriptures and learned from those that follow the Torah and the Gospel.”

You have experienced, the man explained to him, what Moses had before you. And, Muhammad himself would later add, Abraham and Jesus as well.

The Quran, the book of revelations given to Muhammad by God, makes no attempt to disguise the affiliation of its contents with what was found in the sacred books of the Jews and Christians.

Indeed, Muhammad was instructed by God to refer those who