JESUS PROPHET OF ISLAM

About this Book This revised edition of Jesus, Prophet of.lslam comes some eighteen years after the first edition was first published, and seventeen years after its principal co-author, Muhammad Ata’ur-Rahim, alehi rahma, died in London, after travelling half way around the world solely in order to be able to complete the book on Jesus, peace e on him, that he had always longed to write. Although the first edition has never been out of print, the book’s other co-author, Ahmad Thomson, became increayingly aware that there was room for improvement in a revised edifion, especially as regards integrating new material into the text which was not so readily available when the two authors first &ommenced work on the book together twenty years ago. Although some of the original material has been restructured, very little of it has been removed. The main additions in this revised edition centre around: firstly, the historical study of how the split between the original Semitic Unitarian followers of Jesus and the European Trinitarian followers of Paul steadily developed until it became irreversible; secondly, a closer study of the authenticity, accuracy and reli- ability of the texts on which current editions of the Bible are based, including a careful scrutiny of the arguments for and against the current editions of the Gospel of thirdly, the expansion of the last two chapters which explore what the Hadith and the Qur’an have to say about Jesus, not only as regards his original mission, but also with reference to his sec- ond coming — which many people believe to be imminent, although of course only God knows when it will actually occur. It is hoped that the revised edition of Jesus; Prophet of Islam will be not only more fascinating but also more accessible than the first edition — and that in presenting virtually alVthe various perspec- tives from which Jesus has been regarded during the last two millenia — including those of the Atheists, the Jews, Athe Unitarian Christians, the Trinitarian Christians, and the Muslims — the reader will be better able to judge which are nearest the truth. 5X(Y

• AUTHOR : MOHAMMED “ATA’ UR RAHIM AND AHMAD THOMSON
• PUBLISHER: IIPH ISBN 978-603-501-019-1