Early Koranic doctrine granted heaven to faithful Christians and Jews
Evidence
The Koran lambasts Christians and Jews who claim that only members of their sect will be admitted to heaven. The Koran makes no such exclusivist claims for Muslims: good Christians and Jews will have their place in heaven as well. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 247
Categorization
- XREF: Sharply complicates the modern trope (mapped in Aziz/Razack) of an exclusivist Islam that denies salvation to non-Muslims — the source text itself is the opposite.
- ADDENDUM: Supporting evidence for the genealogy argument that later polemical constructions misread an originally inclusive scripture.