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How is Jesus discussed in Qua'an and what is his role in the Islamic faith?

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The Surprising Role of Jesus in Islam

How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims

How did a Jewish preacher who became the Christian Messiah also become one of the most admired figures in the Quran? Mustafa Akyol, a Turkish journalist and contributing opinion essayist for The International New York Times, decides to investigate this apparent problem.

The outcome will come as something of a revelation to many non-Muslim readers, since Jesus is worshipped in Islam's sacred content as a great teacher and prophet, while his mother, Mary, gets more ink — and praise — than in all four New Testament Gospels set up.

On the off chance that the Quran's portrayal of Jesus is familiar in outline, however, its details are now and again not, especially to Western Christians used to a single canonical adaptation. The Quran is progressively ecumenical, dipping into the rich mélange of Middle Eastern traditions contained in the apocryphal and "gnostic" accounts and still especially alive in the popular legend of Eastern Christianity.

It shows Jesus making clay fowls and then breathing life into them, for instance, or Mary giving birth not in a Bethlehem stable with Joseph in attendance however alone under a palm tree, somewhere down in the desert.

Akyol makes great utilization of both canonical and noncanonical sources, tracing where and why the Islamic approach agrees with Christian tradition (yes to Jesus as the courier, prophet, word and soul of God), and where it disagrees (no to the Resurrection, and no to divinity).

Along the way, he raises the stakes by finding what he calls "astonishing" parallels between the Quran and early Christian writings, however such astonishment appears to be unnecessary to this reader. Given the prolific interchange of ideas and legend in the multiethnic Byzantine Middle East, such parallels were likely, however even inevitable.

No new religion appears completely made, similar to Venus on her half-shell. And the Quran is very open about this, as Akyol notes. It offensively acknowledges its obligation by declaring that it comes to affirm both the Torah and the Gospels — to restore their ethical traditions. And since that was also part of the Jesus message — a renewal of Jewish tradition, not a break with it — Akyol presents the Islamic Jesus as all the more a Jewish prophet than a Christian savior.

To support his argument, he dives into the split within the early Jesus development: between the non-Jewish Hellenic church established by Paul, which lasted and prospered, and the Jewish "Jerusalem Church" under James, which did neither.

The idea is that remnants of these "Jewish Christians" may have made due into the seventh century to influence the Quranic idea of Jesus, however this appears something of a Dan Brownian stretch.

However, Akyol exceeds expectations in the last chapter, which will without a doubt raise a few eyebrows with its title alone: "What Jesus Can Teach Muslims Today." In it, he makes a powerful argument for Jesus as the statement of the soul instead of the apparent aim of the law, and against the heartless legalism of both first-century Pharisees and 21st-century Islamic fundamentalists.

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