Injil

Injeel (Arabic: إنجيل, romanized: ʾInjīl, pl. أناجيل ʾanājīl) is the Arabic name for the Gospel of Jesus (ʿĪsā). This Injil is described by the Quran as one of the four Islamic holy books which was revealed by Allah, the others being the Zabur (traditionally understood as being the Psalms), the Tawrat (the Torah), and the Quran itself. The word Injil is also used in the Quran, the hadith and early Muslim documents to refer to both a book and revelations made by God to Jesus. The revelation was given in a physical book according to the Quran.

Muslim generally does not identify the Christian’s New Testament as the divinely revealed Injil mentioned in the Qurʾan. Many Muslim scholars view the Christian’s New Testament as a different text from the Injil mentioned in the Qur’an, because they viewed the New Testament as later inventions that does not preserve the original Injil revealed to Jesus (Isa). The idea that early scriptures revealed by God were altered, misinterpreted or corrupted (taḥrīf) used by Muslim polemical scholar as a framework to explain doctrinal divergence between Islam and Christianity regarding the New Testament or the Bible in general. Some studies have also analyzed early Islamic view regarding Paul’s contribution to the misinterpretation of Jesus’ teaching within these framework. The theological differences regarding the New Testament lies in the doctrine that the New Testament interpreted by the Christians as the word of God, while Muslim reject the idea that the New Testament is the word of God (Injil) as the New Testament contains Paul’s epistles and such that contradict the Islamic definition of the Injil.