Medieval Christians reduced Islam’s prophethood to three prophets, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad

Evidence

The erratic second account of Islam which Matthew Paris published added, to a crude limitation of the number of prophets to three, a subtler explanation of the one Revelation; Muhammad preached . that there were only three Prophets, and there would not be any more to come … Moses instituted those things which agreed with his own time, by means of the Law which was given him by God; Jesus, again, preached and transmitted by the Gospel the things that were to be done in his time; and in the same way Muhammad himself established the things that were fitting in his. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 136

Categorization

• SHARE: A medieval monk’s tidy three-prophet schema would delight anyone interested in how Christianity historically misread Islam.
• XREF: connects to: Muslims rejected the Trinity as polytheism and carnal generation