Portal: Islam and the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Difference between revisions

The influence of the Hebrew Bible tradition is deep and long in the Islamic tradition; in many ways the sira casts Muhammad in the role of a prophet in the caste of Moses the Lawgiver. The Islamic retains many of the prophets of the Hebrew Bible, but often gives their stories new twists, such as the focus on the homosexuality of the sodomites in the story of Lut.