The
Messiah and his prophet. The origin of Islām.
Summary
The History of Religions can no longer remain ignorant of the recent
developments in Qumranic Studies ; denying the presence of a
monastic sect close to the Dead Sea, these bring to light a far greater history
of the messianic movement, whose origins are anterior to our era but whose
ideology of salvation formed itself and spread itself out after the destruction
of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70.
A path of research, sketched out a long time ago yet remaining
under-exploited until a recent period, draws out common features between this
movement, in which many groups called themselves "Nazareans", and the
Proto-muslims which, up until the VIIIth Century,
designated themselves under the name of "Immigrated" i.e. muhājirūn those who made the new
Exodus (the denomination muslimūn,
although coranic, appeared later its original meaning in the prime text is
else).
The present study therefore intends to retake this same path in a
systematic and global manner ; in particular, it brings a analysis which
offers a base permitting the interdisciplinary dialogue rendered indispensable
by the complexity and the depth of the questions posed about messianity and
salvation.
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