| has gloss | eng: Uzair is a figure mentioned in the Quran, in the verse , this verse claims he is worshipped by the Jews as "the son of God". On the other hand, Muslim scholars such as Mutahhar al-Maqdisi and Djuwayni and notably Ibn Hazm and al-Samawal accused Ezra (or one of his disciples) of falsification of the Scriptures. According to Abraham Geiger who was very knowledgeable in Islam and won a prize for his essay "Was hat Mohammed aus dem Judenthume aufgenommen?" (What did Muhammad receive from Judaism). The essay earned Geiger a doctorate at the University of Marburg. It sought to demonstrate that large parts of the Koran were taken from, or based on, Rabbinic literature (a view recently disputed by Michael Pregill in his doctoral thesis The living calf of Sinai : orientalism, "influence," and the foundations of the Islamic exegetical tradition', University of Columbia, 2008, who argues that later Rabbinic literature was in fact influenced by Quranic exegesis, and not the other way round). |
