Author : M.& Ahmad Ata'ur-Rahim & Thomson
Revised Edition. This book examines Jesus as a prophet teaching the Unity of God, and the historical collapse of Christianity as it abandoned his teaching. The author sketches the dramatic picture of the original followers of Jesus who affirmed Unity. What emerges is that "Christianity" is the fiction that replaced their truth. A work that covers the Gospel of Barnabas, the Gospel of Hermes, the Shephard, early and later Unitarian Christians, Jesus in the Gospels and in the Qur'an and Hadith. The author clearly shows the idea of Jesus as part of a Trinity was a Greek Pagan idea adopted by early Christian mission-aries to gain converts among the Greek, and did not become a widely accepted Christian doctrine until after the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. This revised edition of Jesus, Prophet of Islam comes some eighteen years after the first edition was first published, and seventeen years after its principal co-author, Muhammad Ata ur-Rahim, alehi rahma, died in London, after travelling half way around the world solely in order to be able to complete the book on Jesus, peace be on him, that he had always longed to write. Although the first edition has never been out of print, the book's other co-author, Ahmad Thomson, became increasingly aware that there was room for improvement in a revised edition, especially as regards integrating new material into the text which was not so readily available when the two authors first commenced work on the book together twenty years ago. Although some of the original material has been restructured, very little of it has been removed. The main additions in this revised edition centre around: firstly, the historical study of how the split between the original Semitic Unitarian followers of Jesus and the European Trinitarian followers of Paul steadily developed until it became irreversible; secondly, a closer study of the authenticity, accuracy and reliability of the texts on which current editions of the Bible are based, including a careful scrutiny of the arguments for and against the current editions of the Gospel of Barnabas; and thirdly, the expansion of the last two chapters which explore what the Hadith and the Qur'an have to say about Jesus, not only as regards his original mission, but also with reference to his second coming - which many people believe to be imminent, although of course only God knows when it will actually occur. It is hoped that the revised edition of Jesus, Prophet of Islam will be not only more fascinating but also more accessible than the first edition - and that in presenting virtually all the various perspectives from which Jesus has been regarded during the last two millenia - including those of the Atheists, the Jews, the Unitarian Christians, the Trinitarian Christians, and the Muslims - the reader will be better able to judge which are nearest the truth.
Size : 21x115 / 8 x 45 inches
Weight : 510 gm / 1.12 lbs
Pages : 334
Binding : Paper Back