Does the Koran have any link at all to the Bible?

Question

I heard the seperation of the two religions of the Jews and the Muslims were from Abraham's children Isaac, and Ishmael. Is this true?

Answer 1

Yes. The Koran is based off of several sources including but not limited to Jewish scripture, Jewish Apocryphal literature, Arabic legends and myths, gnostic literature, Christian apocryphal lit., and Syrian Nestorianism (a form of Christianity that is heretical) (particularly a Syrian Catechism).

Below are some historians who have tracked the sources of the Koran and give a history to the development of ideas that are contained within. There are more sources and more current ones than the below. These are just for starters.

THE ORIGINAL SOURCES OF THE QUR'AN
CLAIR TISDALL
http://tinyurl.com/lpjru

The great English Historian Hilaire Belloc
http://tinyurl.com/janch

Answer 2

The person above gave an answer from the Christian perspective. Muhammad did not write the koran, as he was illiterate. Even if he was literate, on many points the Koran disagrees with the Bible and Torah. Many scientific facts are presented (physiology, astronomy, geology) that no one in that time would've known of. They've only been discovered recently. The Arabic of the Koran is very genious poetically and this proves its divinity because Muhammad couldn't have done such a thing.

There are similarities, because God originially wrote the Bible and Torah. However, man corrupted it. The Koran is the pure, uncorrupted word of God. So that which was uncorrupted is obviously similar to the Bible (same God) and that which is different was either a new revelation or a correction of the corrupted Bible and Torah.

Answer 3

Nothing exists in a vacuum and as such, both christianity and islam draw on the same traditions with different interpretations. The Koran was written several years after the birth of christianity and it is unlikely that it's followers and writers would not have been inflenced in the early christian traditions. The Koran makes mention of Abraham and Jesus as prophets.

Answer 4

um... sort of.
that's the concept.

ok firstly
if you are christian, moslem, or jewish
you worship the same god as the rest
you trace your ancestory to Abraham.

if you are a jew or christian you trace yourself to David, then to Isaac. if you are a Moslem, to Ishmael.
yes.
(I'll skip the rest of the stuff about it, it is very interesting though)

when writing the Koran Mohammed had access to christian, jewish, zoroastrian and arab polytheistic relegions. he lived in Mecca. Mecca was a major trading center in the arabian peninsulla during the immediate preislamic period. the immediate preislamic period was during the lifetime of Mohammed before the moslem year 1.
due to the convergance of the trade routes around mecca, mecca would have had christians(yemen, ethiopia, byzantium), jews (some arabs were jews, and some were in byzantium), and zoroastrians (persia), coming to trade, or passing through mecca. This is crutial to the development of the islamic faith.
also the diversity of mecca led to the all important concept in the Koran, which requires the acceptance of other relegions.
yes, it is true that western media portrays all moslems as raving lunatics with guns, but to be quite frank, there are a heck of a lot more raving lunatic christians with guns that our country should be more worried about than any moslem.

what the christian world needs to say to the moslem world is:
we're sorry for trying to wipe you all of the face of the earth, the crusades weren't our fault. and we appreciate that you saved the ancient knowledge of our ancestors which our forefathers stupidly tried to destroy in order to strengthen christianity.

Answer 5

1st and fore most lets not be any racist of religion.
Let respect other people religion here. Accept people the way they are not what we want them to be.

Quran is not a retort version of bible or torah or what so holly books.

To the asker i think u should ask the head of mosque in ur area to find out the real answer that u want. Coz i dont think people here can give u the correct answer.

Answer 6

the koran is a distorted verision of torah and the christan gospel
they use words like the eople of the book leading us to believe he obvioslry had contact with jewish and christian liteature muhammed used torah the gospels and also some books called apochrapha when onserning jews christians and jesus using bits and peace of the book of james in the later part of the quran

Answer 7

yes, the bible was the 3rd major book of God/Allah. then man corrrupted it. now it doesnt even make sense as to what it is trying to say. and it was only one(1) book, from one God. not 65 from 65 authors. after the bible got corrupted, the quran took place. and it still didnt get corrupted because muslims are memorizing it and keeping it in good condition.

Answer 8

Yes. Quran is linked with Bible and the the book of Moses, as these are all words of God.

I would recommend www.islamtomorrow.com

Answer 9

The Bible was revealed from Allah to Jesus and changed and corrupted by people like Saul, the Quran was revealed by Allah to Mohammad and preserved from changes and corruption by Him as He promised in the holy Quran because it was meant to be the final and eternal revelation and must be kept correct.

Answer 10

u r so right abraham is even mentioned in the koran