The Abrahamic resists the linear progression from Judaism through Christianity to Islam

Evidence

Among the names that are deployed by the Abrahamic, “the Jew, the Arab” situates the insistence and the importance of a reading of the three religions, a reading that would not gather them in an illusory unity. To the contrary, such reading demands that history-our history-be rethought, a history that is all too sedimented in the manifest progression of the Abrahamic as the history of “Western” religions, in order of appearance, from Judaism to Christianity, from Christianity to Islam. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 335 (#expands, via linked claim)

Christians claim that Jesus brought a message that both continues and supersedes that of Moses; Muslims claim that Muhammad brought a message that both continues and supersedes that of Jesus. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 155 (#complicates, via linked claim)

But first, in this chapter, I explore what it looked like to the first generations of Muslims. … In the first chapter I examine seventh-century Christian conceptions of divine history and religious other; in this, we will examine the development of Muslim doctrines concerning theodicy and the religious other in the Koran, the Hadîth, and other key early Muslim texts. We will see how, for many early Muslims, the rise of Islam and its tremendous successes against Christians were proof of God’s favor: God allowed a small and pure band of his devotees to subdue two large and powerful but decadent empires. Judaism and Christianity were corrupt, superseded versions of the true religion, Islam; their adherents were to be tolerated, but were not to be considered equal to Muslims. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 171 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Abrahamic naming exceeds empirical, identitarian, and historicist reading; The Abrahamic reading rejects the linear progression from Judaism to Christianity to Islam — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 335; Early Muslims read Islam’s victories as proof that Judaism and Christianity were superseded religions — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 171 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Abrahamic reading rejects the linear progression from Judaism to Christianity to Islam #expands (0.95) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 335
• Each Abrahamic successor faith claims it supersedes its predecessor. #complicates (0.80) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 155
• Early Muslims read Islam’s victories as proof that Judaism and Christianity were superseded religions #complicates (0.75) — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 171