The Quran

The first great personality to shape the Arab world was thus the founder of Islam, Mohammed. Little is known of the early life or ancestry of Mohammed, and much of the data of the Muslim tradition has been questioned. The story of Mohammed is embodied in the Koran. He received the call from God when he was nearing his fortieth year, and in his own time his story of this call was controversial: "The story of this nocturnal visitation did Mohammed's cause little good. It was scarcely believed at the time by his closest companions. . . For the next three years he met with little except ridicule wherever he went" (Nutting 20). However, his early preaching was seen as harmless by the Meccans, though the people of that city were indifferent to the creation of a new religion. Mohammed moved to the city of Medina, a move known as the Hijara, and this w

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d together later. Some books originally deemed sacred have been omitted by tradition, many of which are collected today as the Apocrypha. The Christian Bible is divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament. The composition of the Bible took over 1,000 years, with the Old Testament being developed between c. 1200 B.C. to 100 B.C. The process took place in Palestine, Babylonia, and peripheral regions. The Bible includes oral material handed down over several generations, and it was then put into written form by various people. Each book was rewritten by numerous hands (Miller and Miller 71). The primary segment of the Old Testament is a historical and legal work originally in nine volumes and extending from Genesis through II Kings 25. The first five books were separated from the whole about 400 B.C. as the Pentateuch. Jean Astruc in the eighteenth century noted that the Pentateuch is based on even earlier sources. The two chief sources have since been identified in Genesis on the basis of their respective uses of Yahweh or Elohim in referring to the deity. They are called J for the Jehovistic or Yahwistic source and E for the Elohistic source, and P for the Priestly source was later separated from the E source (M
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