For Christmas: Jesus' Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry

For Christmas: Jesus' Life-Giving Breath and Persian Love Poetry

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – In Islam, God is thought of as sending a succession of human Messengers, each with his own dispensation. I say “his” because most Muslim thinkers believed that the Messengers (such as Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, John the Baptist, Jesus) were men. A minority opinion held that Mary the mother of Jesus was a prophet in her own right. I have spoken before about how Muslims depicted the Nativity in their pai…