<p>Historically speaking, my Aunt told me about a Muslim Prophet who married two wives. One was a muslim, the other was a jew…who later converted to Islam “I believe.” Considering this, doesn’t that make the descendants a.k.a “Awan” muslims a part jewish or maybe slightly? I verified this through 3 sources all of which are scholars in their field, and they say that this is correct, but can anyone else shed some light on this? Who was this prophet any helpful website?</p>
<p>Life is full of little ironies. How odd.</p>
<p>Abraham (Ibrahim) is clamimed by christianity, islam and judaism</p>
<p>Yeah. Abraham had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. He had Isaac (the younger son) with Sarah, his wife, and Ishmael with his maid because his wife was barren till she was like 99 or something like that. </p>
<p>Muslims like to believe that they come from Ishmael but there really is no way of knowing that because they weren’t muslim until after Christianity was born. Before, they were just nomadic tribes with random religions. </p>
<p>Christianity claims Abraham because it comes from Judaism, which Abraham pretty much founded.</p>
<p>whether it is actually true or not, one sect of Islam uses that to condemn other sects by appealing to society’s antisemetism. –> vast simplification, but it’s evident that is what is happening. they also say lenin was a jew. and marx.</p>
<p>Wasn’t Marx a Jew anyway?</p>
<p>“Abraham (Ibrahim) is clamimed by christianity, islam and judaism”.</p>
<p>Actually, Muslims believe in all the prophets, including Adam, Abraham, Moses and Jesus (PBUT). They are told, regardless of “sects” that they must respect all the “people of the book”, and that includes Christians and Jews. They also hold the Virgin Mary in the highest esteem. In fact, she is the only woman to whom an entire chapter of the Quran is dedicated to. Unfortunately, the majority of muslims are very poor and illiterate and have been oppressed for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. </p>
<p>At any rate, even though most Muslim prophets are in fact Jewish (Muslims believe that anyone who submits to God is a muslim and that pretty much means every prophet was Muslim as far as they are concerned), the prophet you are thinking of is their main prohet, Mohamed (PBUH).</p>
<p>Marx was a Jew, but that has been used to discredit him…</p>
<p>The story, I believe, goes that after Sarah gave birth to Issac, she had Hagar (Hajar) and Ishmael (Isma’il) banished. They wandered south into the Arabian peninsula and became the progenitors of the Arabs.</p>
<p>Alexandre is correct. Muhammad is the prophet who married a Jewish woman, but they never had any children together. Read about the wife in her wikipedia article:</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safiyya_bint_Huyayy[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safiyya_bint_Huyayy</a></p>
<p>^I’m sorry if I’m bringing up an off topic yet still relevant issue------should wikipedia’s info be used when presenting such critical issues?!
I like Alexandre’s post! (He said exactly the same thing as I was just thinking to say right after I read the first few posts…)</p>
<p>asifkhan, if you are suggesting that wikipedia’s content is not extremely reliable, you are correct…it is not that reliable. I just cited it because it was the quickest resource available to me. I posted it just so people could get some background information, but I’m not saying everything in it is correct.</p>
<p>no, I was not really referring to the validity of the link u’ve posted, just looking at the wikipedia link it just reminded me of channel 1 of last week where all the teachers and professors were blaming and doing evrything w/ wikipedia! (I didn’t really mean it to u at all! :D)</p>
<p>With regard to belief in Jesus/immaculate conception, Islam is closer to Christianity; with regard to most other aspects (dietary rules, etc,), Islam is closer to Judaism (than Christianity is to Judaism).</p>
<p>And some of the oldest Christian communities are Arab.</p>
<p>Also in some countries like Iran Christianity is thought of as a western idea and therefore is shunned and scorned, but actually there Iranian Christian communities that are among the oldest Christian communities in the world.</p>
<p>That sounds to me pretty interesting! Never heard like that b4!</p>
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<p>Nope. This is wrong (the fact that Christianity is shunned and scorned).</p>
<p>In Iran? No, he’s right. After the revolution, everything western was scorned. Ties were scorned. Pop music was scorned. Nail polish was scorned. Religion. Certain book. Music. Culture. Everything Western= scorned.</p>
<p>^Why would they scorn pop music? Much of pop’s cultural origins come from Iran.</p>
<p>They scorned like Michael Jackson and Kim Wilde and regular “western” music. And most of pop’s cultural origins come from jazz and african american culture, not so much Iran.</p>