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When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New York Times wrote that "if Aslan had actually written in defense of the Islamic view of Jesus, that would have been something provocative and new."Mustafa Akyol's The Islamic Jesus is that book --and even much more. For The Islamic Jesus not only tells thestory of Jesus, and his mother Mary, as narrated in the Qur'an. It also exploreshow this Islamic picture of the Nazarene resonates with pre-existing Christiansources, especially Apocrypha. In particular, it unveils the fascinating similaritybetween Islam and "Jewish Christianity," a strain in the early church that gotbranded as a heresy.



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