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Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, this study analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism. Unlike Jews and Christians, Muslims did not accept the text of the Bible as divine word, believing that it had been tampered with or falsified. This belief, the author maintains, led to a critical approach to the Bible, which scrutinized its text as well as its ways of transmission. In tracing the connections between pagan, Islamic and modern Bible criticism, the text demonstrates the importance of Muslim mediation between the ancient world and Europe in a hitherto unknown field.
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Exploring the lively polemics among Jews, Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, this study analyzes Muslim critical attitudes toward the Bible, some of which share common features with both pre-Islamic and early modern European Bible criticism. Unlike Jews and Christians, Muslims did not accept the text of the Bible as divine word, believing that it had been tampered with or falsified. This belief, the author maintains, led to a critical approach to the Bible, which scrutinized its text as well as its ways of transmission. In tracing the connections between pagan, Islamic and modern Bible criticism, the text demonstrates the importance of Muslim mediation between the ancient world and Europe in a hitherto unknown field.
