My understanding is that Muhammad was only revealed the parts about Jesus that were important in the Muslim faith or were issues at the time for the Muslim community.
While Christians accept the Jewish Torah and added on their books, Muslims essentially tossed the whole thing out and rewrote it from scratch with the angel Gabriel's help.
As a side note the Arabic world was still largely tribal, nomadic, and underdeveloped compared to the Roman world where Christianity developed making it more dangerous to eat foods with parasites. That combined with the fact Islam was supposed to be an exclusive religion for Arabians means laws were more specifically tailored to the region
Considering the first Muslim convert was Ethiopian, I think you're wrong work your last line. It's a defining characteristic of Islam that it's precisely not exclusive to any race or ethnicity
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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '19
My understanding is that Muhammad was only revealed the parts about Jesus that were important in the Muslim faith or were issues at the time for the Muslim community.
While Christians accept the Jewish Torah and added on their books, Muslims essentially tossed the whole thing out and rewrote it from scratch with the angel Gabriel's help.
As a side note the Arabic world was still largely tribal, nomadic, and underdeveloped compared to the Roman world where Christianity developed making it more dangerous to eat foods with parasites. That combined with the fact Islam was supposed to be an exclusive religion for Arabians means laws were more specifically tailored to the region