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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