Documentary Analysis: The Muslim Jesus

The Muslim Jesus is a British documentary from the year 2007. Historically, Christians and Muslims have clashed due to their beliefs, and what is so crucial about this documentary is that it challenges the fact that Christians and Muslims are more alike than different; in this case, due to both Christians and Muslims viewing Jesus as an important prophet. The film revolves around how Islam regards Jesus and compares the Islamic view with the Christian view. The film also incorporates Ninian Smart’s Six Dimensions of Religion as it compares and contrasts the sister religions of Christianity and Islam. Smart states that religion follows six dimensions: doctrines, myths, ethics, ritual, experiment, and social. A key part of his assertion is how all of the six dimensions seem to intertwine with each other; and almost all religions follow these six dimensions. A religion …show more content…
In other words, Jesus did not actually die on the cross but instead Allah (the Muslim God) saved Jesus from a terrible fate. These conflicting accounts in the doctrine has led to mass controversy between Christians and Muslims, which then touches upon the Social dimension of Smart’s theory. The documentary then shows this controversy in about the death of Jesus and how many, like the Evangelical Christian from the film become outraged and hold rallies in order to state why the Quran is wrong. According to Smart, the Social dimension is a “religious tradition that implies some sort of social organization”. In the film, the Evangelical Christian shown had dedicated over two decades of his life to Muslim doctrine- in his mind, the Quran was deathly wrong about the death of Jesus and it was his mission to prove them wrong. His impassioned belief had brought many other Christians to his rallies, and in these rallies, multiple people would gather to hear him