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Title: Islamic Jesus, The
Author: AKYOL MUSTAFA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/11/2018
Imprint: GRIFFIN
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
When Reza Aslan’s bestseller <i>Zealot</i> came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn’t addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i> wrote that “if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic view of Jesus, that would have been something provocative and new.”
Mustafa Akyol’s <i>The Islamic Jesus</i> is that book.
<i>The Islamic Jesus</i> 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 <i>and</i> good works, not merely as faith, as Christians would later emphasize. What Akyol seeks to reveal are how these core beliefs of Jewish Christianity, which got lost in history as a heresy, emerged in a new religion born in 7th Arabia: Islam.
Akyol exposes this extraordinary historical connection between Judaism, Jewish Christianity and Islam—a major mystery unexplored by academia. From Jesus’ Jewish followers to the Nazarenes and Ebionites to the Qu’ran’s stories of Mary and Jesus, <i>The Islamic Jesus</i> 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.
ISBN: 9781250199355
Dimension: 210mm X 137mm
Pages: 288