Was the Prophet Muḥammad really Jesus? Responding to the Revisionist Inârah School of Islamic Studies
Introduction In 1977 the modern academic study of Islam’s origins took a radical revisionist turn with the publication of two books: John Wansbrough’s Qur’anic Studies, and most significantly, Patricia Crone & Michael Cook’s Hagarism. The latter book argued that Islam was invented some six decades after a man called Muḥammad died, while the former claims that Islam was…
