The Fast of Moses: The Lunisolar Calendar of the Qur'an and the Jewish Origins of Islam

This article details the origins of Islamic fasting as rooted in Jewish practice amongst chassidim rishonim. It uses Islamic source material to demonstrate that the fast Muhammad recommended to "those who believe" was in fact the Biblical Fast of Moses. This article then employs both Jewish Biblical and Talmudic sources in proving this case, and demonstrates that Islamic Origins were originally Jewish, before the Caliphate uprooted the Qur'an, creating a hadith genre to fill in the gaps left by disconnection from Arabian Jewish minhag...