Historicity
Comparisons are sometimes odious, but even if one
was so inclined one would soon find that the Jesus
of the Gospels and Prophet Muhammad offer no
comparison at all. For, while Prophet Muhammad is
a thoroughly historical character, every detail of
whose life is preserved in critically tested books of
Hadis and history, the life and character of Jesus are
shouded in mystery.
There are scholars who totally dismiss the histori-
cal existence of Jesus and regard him as acharacter
of mythology. But even if we consider this to be an
extreme view and grant, as do the Muslims, that a
person called Jesus was actually bom in Palestine a
few years before the beginning of the Christian era
and claimed to be the expected Messiah of the Jews,
our information about him is so fragmentary and un-
certain that no clear picture of his life and personali-
ty emerges in our minds. There are doubts about the
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