On the Qur’anic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (tahrif) and Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic GABRIEL SAID REYNOLDS UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME According to the fully articulated salvation history of Islam, Moses and Jesus (like all prophets) were Muslims. Moses received an Islamic the Torah as did Jesus, the Gospel (injil). Their communities, however, : ره and altered their scriptures. Accordingly, a canonical hadith has Mubamma declare: O community of Muslims, how is it that you seek wisdom from the People of the Book? Your book, brought down upon His Prophet—blessings and peace of God upon him—is the latest report about God. You read a Book that has not been distorted, but the People of the Book, as God related to you, exchanged that which God wrote [for something else], changing the book with their hands. ! This hadith reflects the idea found frequently among Muslim scholars, usually described with the term tahrif, that the Bible has been literally altered. The same idea lies behind Yaqit’s (d. 626/1229) attribution of a quotation on Jerusalem to a Jewish convert to Islam from Qurayza “who possessed a copy of the uncorrupted Muslim scholars also accuse Jews and Christians of misinterpreting the Bible by hiding, ignoring, or misreading it, and on occasion they describe such misinterpretation as tahrif as
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On the Qur’anic Accusation of Scriptural Falsification (tahrif) and Christian Anti-Jewish Polemic GABRIEL SAID REYNOLDS UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME According to the fully articulated salvation history of Islam, Moses and Jesus (like all prophets) were Muslims. Moses received an Islamic the Torah as did Jesus, the Gospel (injil). Their communities, however, : ره and altered their scriptures. Accordingly, a canonical hadith has Mubamma declare: O community of Muslims, how is it that you seek wisdom from the People of the Book? Your book, brought down upon His Prophet—blessings and peace of God upon him—is the latest report about God. You read a Book that has not been distorted, but the People of the Book, as God related to you, exchanged that which God wrote [for something else], changing the book with their hands. ! This hadith reflects the idea found frequently among Muslim scholars, usually described with the term tahrif, that the Bible has been literally altered. The same idea lies behind Yaqit’s (d. 626/1229) attribution of a quotation on Jerusalem to a Jewish convert to Islam from Qurayza “who possessed a copy of the uncorrupted Muslim scholars also accuse Jews and Christians of misinterpreting the Bible by hiding, ignoring, or misreading it, and on occasion they describe such misinterpretation as tahrif as