Rachid Lazrak, doctor of state in public law and graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris, returns this year with the Arabic version of “Jesus, a great biblical figure from the Koran”. He will also be present on Saturday June 11, 2022 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at SIEL (“La Croisée des Chemins” stand) for the signing of his books.
The eminent scholar Rachid Lazrak has just released the Arabic version of his book Jesus, a great biblical figure from the Koran, which discusses the unique history and status of Jesus and his prominent place in the Quran as a great biblical figure. Both editions will be presented at the 27e edition of the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL).
For this great enthusiast of the history of religions, “the main purpose of this book is to make known, in these turbulent times when many misunderstandings persist between Islam and the Western world, the place occupied by Jesus and his mother in the Koran and the veneration shared by Christians and Muslims for an exceptional man who is Jesus, son of Mary”.
For his part, Ali Benmakhlouf, professor of philosophy at the University of Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, at Sciences Po Paris and at the Free University of Brussels, who prefaced the book, notes that Rachid’s book Lazrak has many merits.
“First of all, we have there a clear and precise language as the lawyers know how to practice it, of which the author is an eminent representative: each word is used according to its weight and its measure, sometimes also according to the atmosphere it conveys. Then, I will say that this book does not just make known the place of Jesus in the Koran; it also aims to examine the enigmas of the figure of Jesus, who is not a simple person, who is said to be a man who has become God, in the Christian tradition,” explains this academic.
“Among these enigmas: that of being the ultimate reference of a religion which claims to be his but which he did not found… What Mr. Lazrak does very seriously is to open the texts of historians, evangelists, doxographers belonging to the three monotheisms, but also historians who do not display their faith but their knowledge of religious facts, to shed light on these questions if not to answer them, to open up different perspectives on Jesus who wrote nothing “, he adds.
Jesus, a great biblical figure from the Koran returns to the fascinating and intriguing figure of Jesus. Nothing regarding Jesus seems out of the ordinary: the conditions of his birth, his life and his death. His identity remains a mystery to many historians. This, at a time when the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, makes him an exceptional being. He is mentioned 35 times, 27 times by name and eight times as the Messiah. As for his mother Mary, she is mentioned more often in the Koran than in the whole of the New Testament, that is 34 times once morest only 19 times in the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
Jesus is qualified by the Koran as the Breath of God, the Spirit of God, His Word. He cites him among the closest and intimate of God. Moreover, apart from his crucifixion and the question of his divinity, the Koran confirms Christians in most of their beliefs concerning Jesus, affirming that he is a prophet, a messenger of God and the Messiah expected by the people of Israel. . It confirms his miraculous birth, the miracles he performed and his ascension.
