Islamic doctrine of tahrif holds Jews and Christians corrupt scripture

Evidence

The Qur’an makes it clear that it not only confirms, but corrects, the Laws of the Gospel (Injil) and the Pentateuch (Tawrat). The Jews and the Christians misrepresent the Revelations entrusted to them. In so far as the Biblical text now known to us is inconsistent with the Qur’dn, Muslims believe, sometimes that the latter abrogates the earlier Revelations, sometimes that Christians and Jews understand the text perversely, and sometimes that the existing text does not faithfully represent the Revelations actually made to Jews and Christians in turn. These were committed to human care, without being verbally guaranteed as the Qur’an was. This corruption of the written text by omitting, in particular, prophecies of the coming of Muhammad, was called tahrif. It was of the allegation of tahrif that Christian writers took greatest and most detailed notice. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 273

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines tahrif — a key Islamic technical term structuring the inter-religious polemic this chapter examines.