ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the Bible has been approached in Islam on themes similar to the Qur’an, and how the qur’anic worldview (such as the doctrine of taḥrīf) has, in turn, informed such interpretations. It examines the views of the nineteenth-century Indian exegete, Hamiduddin Farahi, on the Akedah in Genesis. In his treatise titled Al-ra’y al-ṣaḥīḥ fī man huwa al-ẓabīḥ (The Right View on Who Is the Sacrificed Child), Farahi draws on classical Muslim exegetical works, as well as on historical and philological analyses of the Old Testament, to dispute the Judeo-Christian version of the Akedah. He concludes that the Jews had falsified their own scripture by choosing Isaac as the sacrificed child.
