Close textual reading forced a theologian to grasp the Qur’an’s continuity claim

Evidence

Without setting out to illustrate Islamic themes of prophecy, the loving attention he devoted to the written word of his text compelled him lucidly to establish the Qur’anic claim to be the culmination of past revelations. ‘His Law, that is, the Qur’an, he affirms to be nothing but a completing of those (Old and New) Testaments .. .’ — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the Qur’anic doctrine of tahreef-adjacent continuity — that Islam completes rather than replaces prior scripture.
• XREF: connects to: Bibliander believed a single Quranic passage could restore Christian-Muslim agreement