AHC/WI Mohammed the Christian Prophet

Like it says up on the title, what if Mohammed went on to become considered a Christian prophet rather than the founder of Islam?

What would have had to happen to lead up to this? What impact would this have had on the multiple Christian churches and the Middle East in general? How would this effect relations between European and Middle Eastern powers? How would this have impacted the future years?

Also, what would it have taken for some of the teachings of this alternate Mohammed to be taken into Christian canon and be considered the inspired word of God?
 
Christian prophet? How does that work?

I mean it as in Mohammed being considered a prophet by any of the major Christian churches of the time. Where rather than being called a heretic or heathen he is considered a prophet, not on the level of Jesus but on a level closer to that of an Old Testament prophet.
 
I mean it as in Mohammed being considered a prophet by any of the major Christian churches of the time. Where rather than being called a heretic or heathen he is considered a prophet, not on the level of Jesus but on a level closer to that of an Old Testament prophet.
Maybe not a prophet but if a branch of christianity take on its ideas he could be considered as a saint
 
Christian prophet? How does that work?

Before founding Islam, Mohammed was apparently very interested in Christianity, but he couldn't accept the idea of the Trinity. So if one goes purely by the historical record of Mohammed as a person, it's not unlikely that he could have become Christian. Of course, if one's a Muslim, then it's an impossibility since God's hand was at play here rather than simple human factors.

Harry Turtledove's Agent of Byzantium stories are set in an alt-historical Byzantine Empire where Mohammed became a Christian saint, thereby butterflying away the Arab invasions, and ultimately leading to the Eastern Empire still ruling Italy, North Africa and Southern Iberia by 1300, along with Egypt and the Levant. They're probably his best stories IMHO, though that's likely because his chief area of study was Byzantine history so he's really writing what he knows.
 
He could be considered a saint, but I believe Christianity doesn't allow for prophets after Jesus, since from their point of view he was the "completion" of the "word".
 
Saint Muhammad ibn Abdullah patron Saint of Hijaz, Najd and al-Haasa perhaps?

Sound interesting. Especially if his followers go on to serve Byzantium as soldiers and perhaps create their own kingdom in Egypt or something similar.
 
People have already beaten me to the punch. My first thought when I read the title of the thread was that book.

He might not be a prophet, but it might well be possible he could become Pope/Patriarch in an ATL.
 
If he's a patriarch, then he would have to be a saint of the Orthodox (Eastern Church).

And I really should look up Agent of Byzantium.
 
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