Editing Christianity and Islam (section)

===Theophanes the Confessor===
[[Theophanes the Confessor]] (died c. 822) wrote a series of chronicles (284 onwards and 602–813 AD)<ref>[http://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=2098 Theophanes in English, on Mohammed] gives an excerpt with all pertinent text as translated by Cyril Mango</ref><ref>The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (Byzantine and Near Eastern History AD 284–813). Translated with introduction and commentary by Cyril Mango and Geoffrey Greatrex, Oxford 1997. An updated version of the roger-pearse.com citation.</ref><ref>[http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/1938.html The Chronicle of Theophanes Anni Mundi 6095–6305 (A.D. 602–813)] a more popularised but less rigorously studied translation of Theophanes chronicles</ref> based initially on those of the better known [[George Syncellus]]. Theophanes reports about Muhammad thus:
{{Blockquote|At the beginning of his advent the misguided Jews thought he was the Messiah. ... But when they saw him eating camel meat, they realized that he was not the one they thought him to be, ... those wretched men taught him illicit things directed against us, Christians, and remained with him.}}

{{Blockquote|Whenever he came to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] he consorted with Jews and Christians and sought from them certain scriptural matters. He was also afflicted with epilepsy. When [[Khadijah bint Khuwaylid|his wife]] became aware of this, she was greatly distressed, inasmuch as she, a noblewoman, had married a man such as he, who was not only poor, but also an epileptic. He tried deceitfully to placate her by saying, 'I keep seeing a vision of a certain angel called [[Gabriel]], and being unable to bear his sight, I faint and fall down.'}}