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Jesus and Muhammad : parallel tracks, parallel lives / F. E. Peters.

By: Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: (xxiii, 214 p.) 22 cmISBN:
  • 0199747466 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9780199747467 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT301.3 .P43 2011
Contents:
Introduction. Clearing the ground. The art of portraiture ; The long quests ; History and revelation ; Saints and their lives ; In the eyes of the believers ; Polemic and history ; Two foreign countries ; Parallel tracks, parallel lives -- The Settings. Jesus and first-century Palestine ; The context for Muhammad ; The prophets in place -- Opening the Files. The dossier on Jesus ; The dossier on Muhammad ; The New Testament and the Quran -- The Critic at work : coming of age. Jesus' infancy narratives ; The "infancy gospel of Islam" ; Where do we stand? -- The Living Voice. Jesus speaks ; Muhammad speaks, or sings ; Q and the Hadith -- The message : Jesus in Galilee. The shape of the gospels ; John the Baptist and Jesus ; The twelve ; Spreading the good news ; An itinerant preacher ; What was the good news? ; The kingdom ; Messiahs and the Messiah ; Signs and wonders ; A Jewish teacher ; The man and the message -- The message : Muhammad at Mecca. A preliminary exercise ; The man Muhammad ; The call to prophecy ; An experience of the unseen world ; A heavenly journey ; Identification, validation ; Muhammad's public preaching ; The Muslims pray ; Growing pressures ; The Satanic Verses ; Threats of the judgment ; The seal of the prophets ; Identifying the prophet ; Two prophetic reformers ; The plot against Muhammad ; A resort to violence ; The migration ; Two versions of the good news -- Act two : tragedy and Triumph. Jesus in Jerusalem ; Muhammad at Medina ; Politics and piety -- A new dawn : the aftermath, the legacy. Jesus, the aftermath ; Muhammad, the legacy ; Portraits from life -- Epilogue : spreading the word. Without the Lord ; How the message spread ; Making Christians ; Without the prophet ; The missionary impulse ; Conversion and assimilation ; Making Muslims.
Summary: Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Here, Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Clearing the ground. The art of portraiture ; The long quests ; History and revelation ; Saints and their lives ; In the eyes of the believers ; Polemic and history ; Two foreign countries ; Parallel tracks, parallel lives -- The Settings. Jesus and first-century Palestine ; The context for Muhammad ; The prophets in place -- Opening the Files. The dossier on Jesus ; The dossier on Muhammad ; The New Testament and the Quran -- The Critic at work : coming of age. Jesus' infancy narratives ; The "infancy gospel of Islam" ; Where do we stand? -- The Living Voice. Jesus speaks ; Muhammad speaks, or sings ; Q and the Hadith -- The message : Jesus in Galilee. The shape of the gospels ; John the Baptist and Jesus ; The twelve ; Spreading the good news ; An itinerant preacher ; What was the good news? ; The kingdom ; Messiahs and the Messiah ; Signs and wonders ; A Jewish teacher ; The man and the message -- The message : Muhammad at Mecca. A preliminary exercise ; The man Muhammad ; The call to prophecy ; An experience of the unseen world ; A heavenly journey ; Identification, validation ; Muhammad's public preaching ; The Muslims pray ; Growing pressures ; The Satanic Verses ; Threats of the judgment ; The seal of the prophets ; Identifying the prophet ; Two prophetic reformers ; The plot against Muhammad ; A resort to violence ; The migration ; Two versions of the good news -- Act two : tragedy and Triumph. Jesus in Jerusalem ; Muhammad at Medina ; Politics and piety -- A new dawn : the aftermath, the legacy. Jesus, the aftermath ; Muhammad, the legacy ; Portraits from life -- Epilogue : spreading the word. Without the Lord ; How the message spread ; Making Christians ; Without the prophet ; The missionary impulse ; Conversion and assimilation ; Making Muslims.

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Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Here, Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad.

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