ABSTRACT
Muslim attitudes to the Bible exhibit both variation and family resemblances, while Muslims do not always assume that the Bible is an entirely corrupted text. This chapter examines that the Bible can be used to strengthen the cause of Islam rather than endorsing the biblical faiths themselves. Through most of Islamic history different qur'anic verses were used as a basis for internal qur'anic abrogation from those used to justify the abrogation of previous scriptures. The parallel lines of abrogation and supersession become more intertwined in the modern age. This is because the doctrine of internal abrogation, whereby one qur'anic verse abrogates another, is less popular than it once was. The case of Ghazali is a particular example raising the wider question of what significance lies behind Muslims taking the idea of biblical corruption as relating only or mainly to its interpretation. Some take it as holding out greater hope for dialogue.
