The Arabic Infancy Gospel and Islamic-Christian transmission
- Date of account
- 1990–2009 scholarly reception
- Location
- Egypt and Arabic-speaking Christian manuscript traditions
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Arabic Infancy Gospel, a composite Christian apocryphon preserved in Arabic manuscripts, expands stories about Mary, Jesus’s childhood, miracles, and encounters with religious figures. Its circulation in Arabic-speaking communities makes it relevant to comparison across Christian, Islamic, and eastern Mediterranean narrative environments. Modern scholarship considered its sources, translation history, and relationship to Syriac and earlier infancy traditions. The text’s title and manuscript history vary, and its Arabic form should not automatically be treated as an original first-century document.
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