How has Judaism and Christianity influenced Islam?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Judaism was the religion founded by Abraham more than 3000 years ago. Abraham's first son, Ishmael, was the ancestor of Muslims. Islam has dietary restrictions that are very similar to the kashrut of Judaism. Also, Judaism and Islam are both monotheistic religions, with certain principles that are ingrained in the Jewish tradition. The Islamic notion of Allah is just the Arabic word for God.

Answer 2

Judaism actually had a profound impact on the development of Islam. Several lines in the Qur'an are direct copies or paraphrases of Jewish sources that surely existed by 500 C.E. -- over 100 years prior to the Qur'anic Revelation.

Some of these verses include:

• Q: 5:31 which corresponds to a story in Targum Y. ben Uzziah -- A raven scratches the ground to tell a dumbfounded Cain how to dig a burial pit for his murdered brother.
• Q: 5:32 which corresponds to Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5 -- This is the famous line that killing one person is like killing the entire world. Both specifically related this story to Cain because the bloods of Abel cry out.
• Q: 21:50-71 which corresponds with Midrash Breishit 38:11-13 -- Abraham is breaking idols in his father, Terah's workshop. The idolmakers get furious and demand that Abraham be punished. Abraham protests saying that the idols are meaningless because there is only One God and He is not in the idols. The idolmakers decide to burn him alive for desecrating the idols, but Abraham miraculously escapes being burned alive.
• Q: 24:24 which corresponds with the Talmud in Chagigah 16, and Taanith 11 -- Both sources state that the various body parts (specifically hands and feet) of a person will testify against him when he arrives in heaven.
• Q: 27:16-44 which corresponds with Targum Esther -- Solomon speaks to a large and powerful bird who informs him that there is a Queen in a remote land, which happens to be the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia. Solomon demands that the bird bring her a message to come and speak with him. The Queen complies and believes Solomon to be a very wise king.

In addition to the numerous Qur'anic verses that have origins in Jewish belief, the entire system of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) is modeled in the same manner as Rabbinic scholarship. Holy Texts are read and interpreted to give meaning and discretion to current situations and these are debated by jurists (Faqih) until such a time as an answer is created and a religious decision (fatwa) published. (In Judaism it is the same; but replace Fiqh with Oral Law, Faqih with Rabbi, and fatwa with responsum.)

Additional similarities between the religions include that both Judaism and Islam reject the Trinity as the Godhead, are based in orthopraxis (doing over believing), have a form of religious jurisprudence based on their holy books, have dietary restrictions, and pray in distinct holy languages at set intervals during the day.

Answer 2

In Islam we believe that all prophets before Muhammad had the same message: to believe in one god and one alone. Judaism came first but after their prophet Moses died, they went off track, so there was another prophet Jesus and the same thing happened, then there was Muhammad who was declared the last prophet, and his miracle was the Qura'an which god promised to save from changing and it hasn't in 1430 years. In some ways you would find all three religions similar, and the closer Christianity and Judaism is to their original belives, the similar they are to Islam. All three came from the same source and had the same rules. There were number of prophets before them and they are all mensioned in the Qura'an, Bible and Toarah, and all strories are similar.

Answer 3

AnswerMuch of the teaching in both Christianity and Islam is based on that of Judaism.

Christianity is believed to have begun in the Jewish communities of Galilee and Judea, in the first century CE. Christians view Judaism as the forerunner of their religion, and the Hebrew Bible forms the first part of the Christian Bible.

By the seventh century CE, both Christianity and Judaism had formed inroads into the Arabian Peninsula. Muhammad was consequently influenced by the Christians and Jews that he met, as he developed and preached the religion of Islam. Although Muslims do not read The Bible as holy scripture, much of the Koran is consistent with, or based on, that of the Hebrew Bible.

Answer 2

Christianity

Christianity readily admits its Jewish beginnings. Jesus was a Jew and spoke in terms of Jewish metaphors and ideals. Christianity also takes the Jewish Bible as part of its canon of Holy Books and teaches about the Jewish God. Christianity often sees itself as the proper successor to Judaism.

Islam

The Qur'an is a composite of several previously existing traditions that Mohammed merged and aggregated. Probably the most central basis of the Qur'an is Jewish tradition. This does not mean that the Qur'an lifted phrases only from the Bible, but rather that the Qur'an repeated stories or paraphrases of Jewish sources the commented on the Bible and that existed by 500 C.E. -- over 50 years prior to Qur'anic Revelation.

Some of these verses include:

• Q: 5:31 which corresponds to a story in Targum Y. ben Uzziah -- A raven scratches the ground to tell a dumbfounded Cain how to dig a burial pit for his murdered brother.
• Q: 5:32 which corresponds to Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5 -- This is the famous line that killing one person is like killing the entire world. Both specifically related this story to Cain because the bloods of Abel cry out.
• Q: 21:50-71 which corresponds with Midrash Breishit 38:11-13 -- Abraham is breaking idols in his father, Terah's workshop. The idolmakers get furious and demand that Abraham be punished. Abraham protests saying that the idols are meaningless because there is only One God and He is not in the idols. The idolmakers decide to burn him alive for desecrating the idols, but Abraham miraculously escapes being burned alive.
• Q: 24:24 which corresponds with Chagigah 16, Taanith 11 -- Both sources allege that the various body parts (specifically hands and feet) of a person will testify against him when he arrives in heaven by literally speaking to God.
• Q: 27:16-44 which corresponds with Targum Esther -- Solomon speaks to a large and powerful bird who informs him that there is a Queen in a remote land, which happens to be the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia. Solomon demands that the bird bring her a message to come and treat with him. The Queen complies and believes Solomon to be a very wise king.

In addition to the numerous Qur'anic verses that have origins in Jewish belief, the entire system of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) is modeled in the same manner as Rabbinic scholarship. Holy Texts are read and interpreted to give meaning and discretion to current situations and these are debated by jurists (Faqih) until such a time as an answer is created and a religious decision (fatwa) published. (Judaism is the same, but replace Fiqh with Oral Law, Faqih with Rabbi, and fatwa with responsum.)

Additional similarities between the religions include that both Judaism and Islam reject the Trinity as the Godhead, are based in orthopraxis (doing over believing), have a form of religious jurisprudence based on their holy books, have dietary restrictions, and pray in distinct holy languages at set intervals during the day.

Answer 4

Neither Judaism nor Christianity has influenced Islam religion. This is true for one simple reason. Islam is not human invented religion to be influenced by other religions or characters. Islam is God religion.

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Islam is an Arabic word that means submission and surrender to God. The root of the word Islam is 'salem' that means being in peace. So, Islam is submission and surrender to Allah (God, the Creator) and hence fulfilling peace.

In this sense Islam began by the universe creation where all God creatures were created with full submission (Islam) to God. Upon start of mankind, people were taught through God prophets to be on full submission (Islam) to God. All prophet missions; including Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, was to call for and teach people to hold submission (Islam) to the one and only one God, the Creator, with no partner, no son, no associate, no companion, and no resemblance.

In this sense:

• Islam per God revelation of Torah to Moses is called Judaism.
• Islam per God revelation of the bible to Jesus is called Christianity.
• Islam per God revelation of Quran to Muhammad is called the very name Islam.

Islam religion per Quran revelation to prophet Muhammad began in Mecca (or Makkah) , in the current country of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in year 610 AD by God revelation of first verses of Quran to prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel (Jibril).

Answer 5

Because the founder of Islam (Muhammad) lived among a populace that had many Jews among them. He saw their practices and heard their narratives and was thereby influenced.

Islam, like Christianity, was heavily influenced by Judaism, directly and indirectly. Very many concepts and quotes in the Qur'an (the book of Islam) are taken verbatim from the Torah, the Hebrew prophets, and later Jewish teachings. The Talmud was already recorded in writing by no later than 500 CE*, before the time of Muhammad, making it a simple matter to quote from it too.*(Footnote: as stated in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, under "Talmud and Midrash.")

Examples:

1) Qur'an:

"...Whoever killed a human being, except as punishment for murder or other villainy, shall be deemed as though he had killed all mankind; and whoever saved a human life shall be deemed as though he had saved all mankind."

Judaism:

"Whoever kills a single individual it is considered that he has slain the entire world, but he who preserves the life of a single individual it is counted as if he has preserved the whole world." Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5.

2) Qur'an:

The famous narrative of how the young Abraham smashed his father's idols -

Judaism:

- is taken from the Jewish midrash (Genesis Rabbah 38:11-13).

3) The following Hebrew-Bible characters are found in parallel Qur'an-narratives:

Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Jethro, David, Solomon, Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Zachariah, and Job.

4) Arthur Jeffery writes in "The Foreign Vocabulary of the Quran", in page 1 of the introduction:

"One of the distinct impressions gleaned from a first perusal of the Quran, is that of the amount of material which is borrowed from the religions that were active in Arabia at the time when the Quran was in process of formation. It is plain that Muhammad drew his inspiration not from the religious life and experiences of his own land and his own people, but from the great monotheistic religions which were pressing down into Arabia in his day."

5) Charles Torrey in "The Jewish Foundation of Islam", writes on page 43:

"It was at home, not abroad, that the Muhammad received the Biblical and Haggadic narratives which occupy so large a part of the Koran."