WI: A more "Jewish" Islam?

To the best of my knowledge, Judaism only became fully monotheistic during the Exile, or shortly before, with Josiah's reign likely to be an important turning point either way.
Zoroaster's chronology is a hell of a mess, but there's some reason to think that some Avestic material dates back to some centuries before the Achemenid Empire.
So, Jews were probably either already monotheistic, or very close to that, by the time they met Persian religion significantly after about 540 BC. It is pretty likely that this religions influenced them in significant ways, but probably it di not inspire Jewish Monotheism in a fundamental way.
Inspiration from Atenism, AFAIK, is also quite questionable, unless in VERY general terms (there are Psalms that seem to reflect the Hymn to Aten at some points).
In general I think that Jewish Monotheism is pretty much a jewish creation, although obvisously one made in a cross-cultural and imperial context where elite Jews would'nt have been able to avoid outside cultural influence (not to mention political domination) even if they had wanted to.
Islam is definitely an Abrahamitic religion very much along the models of post-exilic Judaism, it takes a lot of Judaic elements, and well, Allah is the Bible's God, period.
Persian cultural influence existed in Pre-Islamic Arabia, and a lot of Persian stuff entered the Islamicate world at large. Some elements of Islam may Persian, but the basic stem is almost unquestionably Judaic/ Christian, not Zoroastrian.
 

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To the best of my knowledge, Judaism only became fully monotheistic during the Exile, or shortly before, with Josiah's reign likely to be an important turning point either way.
That depends. It is believed that the move from Henotheism to Monotheism starts around the time of Moses, regardless of his historicity, and the conflicts between Judah and Israel. It may well have been complete before the Exile, though it was definitely during this time that the religion was unequivocally monotheist.

Inspiration from Atenism, AFAIK, is also quite questionable, unless in VERY general terms (there are Psalms that seem to reflect the Hymn to Aten at some points).
It is questionable, I just brought it up as it is far less questionable than to say it was inherited or borrowed from ancient Persia. Ancient Persian religion, until Zoroaster, was influenced by Mesopotamian Civilization. Though the degree to which Atenism is questionable relies heavily on how much stock one puts in the Exodus and Moses. If one espouses the belief that the Jews never spent any major time in Egypt, then Persian influences become far more pronounced.

Islam is definitely an Abrahamitic religion very much along the models of post-exilic Judaism, it takes a lot of Judaic elements, and well, Allah is the Bible's God, period.
Agreed.
 
Those groups are considered heretical in Christianity. Judaism and Islam reject any notion that Jesus had any divine nature.

They are considered heretical to trinitarian sects, like Catholics/Orthodox/Protestants. There is no central 'Christian' authority, just like there is no central 'Muslim' authority (unless we are to presume that the Sunni/Shia/etc divide doesn't exist).
 
And I will add again - Islam was born in a world (the arabic peninsula) who had jews, christians and 'monotheists' already. It was in contact around.
 
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