Critique of the Influential Perspective of Judaism and Christianity on Islam, Harald Suerman

The study of Orientalists' views on Islam is one of the most important issues among thinkers in the field of Qur’anic sciences. The purpose of the present study is to examine the views of the German orientalist Harald Suermann in his article "Early Islam Based on Jewish and Christian Sources", which seeks to prove the influence of Judaism and Christianity in Islam. The method of this paper, which is the result of a research, is based on the library method and is applied in terms of purpose and has a descriptive-inferential nature in terms of the level of analysis. The data were collected through library studies using the Fish tool and answered in the form of discourse. The research findings show that Orientalists seek to weaken the religion of Islam and, using weak sources, introduce their doubts into the religion and then attribute it to the Holy Quran. The result of this research is that Suerman and Orientalists such as Krone and Cook, who explain Goldziher's view, consider Judaism and Christianity to be influential in early Islam and its spread, and introduce Islam as violent and ethnic, which, of course, the verses of the Qur'an and Original Islamic sources refute these statements.