Shlomo Pines

The resumes to the Quran lies in that denial of Christ's divinity, not in his birth, since the Quran affirms the virgin conception in chapter 19.

The Israeli scholar Shlomo Pines argued that a Muslim theologian of the 10th century adapted writings that reflect the traditions of a Jewish Christian community, that is Pines' reconstruction, not an uncontested conclusion, there is one more strand the great jewish scholar of mysticism gershom scholem argued that early jewish mysticism the root from which kabbalah later grew shows deep parallels with ancient gnosticism that is scholem's argument and scholars still dispute the direction and the degree of influence We offer it not as a chain that explains how the Quran was composed, but as evidence that the Jewish sectarian world and the Gnostic world were tangled together in the very centuries that fed the Quran's background.

None of this would have surprised the church's earliest observers of Islam.

St. John of Damascus, born into a Christian family that served the Muslim Caliphs in Damascus, wrote about Islam within about a century of Muhammad's death in the Greek language work known as The Fount of Knowledge.

Understands Arabic well, to translate it properly.

I don't know, uh, this, this author, was he a rabbi, the translator, or was just an intellectual? Uh, it translated Note Shlomo Pines.

I don't know if he was a rabbi.

That's a name.