| | Rebuttals to Islamic Awareness: And No One Had The Name Yahyâ Before |
 | | Muhammad came out of his cave centuries after the time of John the Baptist, and cannot be trusted as an accurate source of history, especially when we have the testimony of the Apostles and the Roman historian Josephus. |
 | | Another example of the Islamic influence on Mandaean beliefs is the pseudo-historical Haran Gawaitha, which allegedly predicted the "Arab age" and the coming of Muhammad, who is referred to as the "Son-of-Slaughter". |
 | | If, on the other hand, the Mandaeans were first to invent this strange and historically unsupported name for John (some 100 or 200 years before Muhammad), then there is a high likelihood that this might have been the direct or indirect source from which Muhammad borrowed this name for use in the Qur'an. |
| www.answering-islam.org /Responses/Saifullah/yahya_av.htm (3176 words) |