Jesus & Muhammad, By F. E. Peters

The book, Jesus & Muhammad, is written by F. E. Peters. Peters is a professor at New York University, where he teaches Islamic Studies and Religion. Peters is said to be a leader in the comparative studies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The book is written to compare and make a clear idea of how Jesus and Muhammad had parallel lives. Author, F. E. Peters states, “Jesus and Muhammad have been the subject of the most sustained and detailed biographical inquiries in the Western tradition, and the quest for the historical Jesus in particular has been almost a laboratory experiment in the historiography of the preindustrial era” (Peters, xxii-xxiii). The author is explaining here that the topic that is discussed in the book is not an easy topic, however it is necessary as there have been many inquiries about it.
The time period in which the book is in includes both Jesus’s, which is the first century and then Muhammad’s, which is the seventh century. The author of the book describes some of the major events in Jesus’s and Muhammad’s lives, including when they were born, their work as well-known people, their deaths, and what occurred after their deaths. Although there are many similarities between Jesus and Muhammad, a difference is that Jesus liked to spread his religion in a peaceful manner, while Muhammad was more violent in preaching his religion. As seen through reading the book, the goal E. F. Peters had was to explain the similarities between Jesus and Muhammad, and to not show what separates Christianity from