Download e-book for kindle: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Faith by Stephen J. Vicchio,Bruce C. Birch

"Vicchio believes that by way of figuring out how a lot Muslim culture overlaps with the biblical traditions of Judaism and Christianity, we would start to disclose a wedge of universal floor on which realizing and appreciate may start to be built.
"Vicchio starts off with a short creation sketching a few basics of Muslim background and tradition, and clearing away a few universal misconceptions. His major objective, despite the fact that, is to offer us an in depth examine the remedy of biblical figures within the literature of Islam. The large variety of his examine and presentation is startling. He starts with the Qur'an yet maintains directly to the gathered writing of the approximately 2 hundred years after Mohammed (Hadith, Sunnah, Akhbar) that got here to be considered as authoritative within the a number of traditions that constructed in early Islam. He then strains the curiosity in those biblical figures on into glossy remedies of the function of those figures in Muslim scholarship and the way those figures are understood and utilized in the traditions of Islam but today.
"The results of Vicchio's scholarship and presentation could be a revelation to so much Christian and Jewish readers. It has turn into a bit typical to consult Judaism, Christianity, and Islam because the 3 Abrahamic faiths. This indicates a starting knowledge of the beginnings of every of those 3 nice religions, birthed within the center East, in a standard ancestor, Abraham (Ibrahim). Abraham's faithfulness and his closeness to God make his a respected determine in each one of those 3 nice faiths, and for every Abraham is a starting of the tale of the actual dating among God and the folk of every of those religions."
--from the Foreword

Stephen J. Vicchio is Professor of Philosophy in school of Notre Dame of Maryland. he's additionally the writer of The Voice from the Whirlwind, Jefferson's Religion, and The photo of the Biblical Job (3 vols.).