The Khatim an-Nabiyyin (The Seal of the Prophets) and Its Inclusive Abrahamic Perspective: Muhammad and ‘Isa ibn Maryam in Dialogue

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

You must modify the translation of Koran (33, 40) in your Abstract (''Muhammad is not the father of any one of you your men; he is God’s messenger...''

Author Response

Thank you again for your revision.

I will immediately correct the Abstract Koran translation, thanks again.

 

Reviewer 2 Report

- already reviewed

Author Response

Thanks again for your work.

This manuscript is a resubmission of an earlier submission. The following is a list of the peer review reports and author responses from that submission.

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

• introduction is lacking in clarity
• paragraphs are sometimes too short; the argumentative passage from one paragraph to the next is not always clear
• secondary literature (historical, theological) on the christian concepts of Jesus as seal is missing
• the use of concepts/expression such as "Abrahamic (narrative, specturm, tradition)" should be explained
• the sources need to be contextualized further
• sometimes too polemical
• sometimes the author tacidly assumes the plausibility of his argumentation without explaining why
• historical parallels (e.g. history of Christianity and eschatological role of Jesus in Islam) are not always convincing and need to be substantiated
• the is no chapter "conclusion"

Author Response

I thank you in advance for your suggestions which I consider particularly enriching for the article's publication. 

I consider all of them and I tried to ameliorate the entire article.

• Clarification of the Introduction.
• I add a Conclusion fragmenting the last section
• As Italian, I usually have the problem in elaborating too long paragraphs (ironic), not in making them too short, anyway, I tried to clarify some of these passages.
•  I am not so expert in Christian literature, so I add few works on this side.
•  I tried to cut polemics, even if I maintained a firm opposition to the excessive parallelism among Old-New Testament quotations and the Islamic interpretation on the Khatm an-Nabiyyin (David and Muhammad on the Bethsabea's case) 
•  I tryed to clarify some obscure parts as the Jesus eschatological assumption within Islam, which anyway still remain quite hard to understand for me.

 

I remain at your disposal for any further clarification.

MD 

Reviewer 2 Report

The article is very difficult to follow. It is unclear what new insights are being shown. 

Author Response

At whom it may concern, 

 

I thank you in advance for your revision. I tried to improve it through a new English proof-reader passage as well as a tentative to make the entire article more readable and understandable.

Thanks.

 

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 3 Report

1-The translation of Koran (33, 40) is not correct : “Muhammad is not the father of any one of you your men; he is God’s messenger and the Seal…”

2-Regarding the question of Islamic interpretations of the khatam in the early centuries and, above all, in contemporary Islam, the most recent book is not mentioned: Y. Sangaré, Le scellement de la prophétie en islam (khatam al-nubuwwa), Paris, Geuthner, 2018).

Author Response

I thank you in advance for both suggestions that I have considered in the revision of the article. 

MD