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Christianity and Islam in Premodern Africa

Christianity and Islam date back to a time long before the modern era and both have sizable similarities between the two religions. Many of these similarities can be simplified into three subjects; both have books comprised of holy texts written about events taking place during their prophet’s life, both are believed to have started with God appointed leaders, and both consist of different divisions within their religion. Christianity starting with the birth of Jesus Christ and Islam with the prophet Muhammad, at age 40, also believed to be the last prophet of God. The Holy Bible is the book believed by Christians to contain the revelations of God and is the guiding holy text of the Christian …show more content…

The Holy Bible is comprised of two Testaments, Old and New, where the Old is written from the time of human origins to right about the time of Jesus’s birth and talks about certain holy texts, such as the Ten Commandments, written by God for Moses, that tell a list of ten commands that shall never be broken. The New is written by Jesus’s disciples discussing the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. The New Testament consists of 27 books all written either towards the end or after the life of Jesus Christ, all written by his followers, like Saint Peter who created the first Christian Church in Rome. Muslims believe the Qur’an was poetic verses, teaching the morals of life, God said to Muhammad dictated by God and that Muhammad wrote down these “recitations”. Many of the stories told in the Qur’an have similar overlapping with the stories in the Bible, talking about many of the same people. One major event that takes place during Muhammad’s life was the pilgrimage he took to Medina where he would begin spreading the word of Islam, just as Jesus had done in terms of spreading God’s teachings. The Bible and Qur 'an have many similarities in that they are both derived from the same God and speak of similar teachings that have shaped the religious world in some spectacular and some humdrum ways.

Muslims and Christians together believe in their prophets

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