Christians inherit Jewish scripture, Muslims replaced rather than adopted it

Evidence

For Christians, Israel and its people have a quite special importance, going back to the very roots of their religion and their civilization. The land of Israel, with its topography, its place-names, and a part of its history, are as familiar to them as their own, and sometimes more so. So, too, is the people of Israel. There is no comparable interest among Muslims. The Hebrew Bible was adopted by the Christians as a sacred book. Renaming it the Old Testament, they added a New Testament and the two constituted the Chris­ tian Scripture. There was no parallel development among Muslims, who simply declared both the Old and New Testaments to be obsolete and brought a new Scripture not to supplement but to supplant the existing ones. Elements from the Old Testament have some part in Islam, but it is insignificant compared with their place in Christian teaching, belief and experience. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1643

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes how Christianity incorporated the Hebrew Bible as ‘Old Testament’ while Islam supplanted both Testaments with the Qur’an.
• XREF: connects to: Muslims held that Jews and Christians corrupted their scriptures