ABSTRACT
Islam has developed so many ways of proclaiming the central tenet of its creed. Samaritanism is no less vociferous in proclaiming the same. In the case of such a religious symbiosis between the Samaritan religion and Islam, separating original Samaritan from adopted Islamic will not be an easy task so long as a precise history of Samaritan literature, with dates of authors and works, remains unavailable to us. The remarkable correspondence between their ancient credal formula and monotheistic terminology on the one hand and the Islamic equivalents on the other can hardly be a coincidence, although it is not possible to determine the historical details of their borrowing by the Prophet more closely. As it is not possible to prove any direct contact between Muhammad and the Samaritans, the remarkable correspondence between the Islamic and the Samaritan liturgical terminologies is most probably due to the common monotheistic heritage of Samaritans, Jews a.
