if Abraham was Egyptian, than he would be black, I went to the LA museum when they had that Egyptian stuff, I have an uncle that says early Egyptians were black until they started getting conquered by all these white people; Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs
The Ancient Egyptians were not of the same stock as the sub-Saharan Africans, at least based on what little we can deduce from such evidence as their language. They were most probably members of a large ethnic group that included people on both sides of the Red Sea, including the Semites. The Afro-Asiatic language family includes Egyptian, Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic, among many others.
dude, my uncle's says that Africans have all the genes to make other races.
His point is basically valid. DNA analysis performed just in the last couple of years, coupled with extensive anthropological and archeological research, settles the issue incontrovertibly that all humans outside of Africa are the descendants of two waves of migration out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago. (There are a couple of threads on SciForums with citations.) Furthermore, we're the descendants of one fairly small group, and the ones who stayed behind are the San or Bushmen. We're not so closely related to other Africans at all. But to get back to the point, fifty thousand years is a long time and many mutations have taken place. Some of the genes that identify specific non-African ethnic groups may not have existed when our ancestors were in Africa. Many visible traits such as skin color are quite ephemeral and can just as easily be the result of mutation and environmental factors, as much as ancestry.
wouldn't Islam be more properly called Mohammedanism, after its founder;
That is in fact what most Americans called it back in the 1950s. And the people were Mohammedans.
An Abrahamic religion would by definition be based on the religion of Abraham as its foundation, regardless of how many stories were built on top of it.
We outsiders see a clear commonality among Judaism, Christianity and Islam, regardless of how the believers in the three religions might prefer to highlight their differences. They believe in the same one god, and their mythologies are clearly set in the same milieu with the same species of supernatural creatures such as angels and even the same individuals of those species such as Gabriel. They don't necessarily regard each other's holy books as holy yet they do regard them as history. Both Jews and Muslims accept Jesus as an actual historical figure, despite the absence of reliable evidence for his existence. They believe in the same heaven and the same hell, and their god judges us in the same way upon our death in order to decide which place to send us to.
To an unreligious person these are just three variants of the same fable. I can't imagine that Hindus, Buddhists and members of other less widely dispersed religions don't also feel the same way about it. Abrahamism is a religion of monotheism, prophecies, judgment and aferlife. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are three of its sects, which are further dvided into smaller sects.
By "Abrahamic" what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that the religion has Abraham in it's mythos? If so then yes Islam is an Abrahamic religion. Actually, so is Mormonism. The Mormon's Last Prophet Joseph Smith also incorporated Abraham into his religion. So it's Abrahamic.
Again, to someone outside of the Abrahamic community, Mormonism is just another offshoot of Christianity and therefore an Abrahamic faith. They even call it the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints and they pray to the same god as the Jews, the Muslims and the other Christians.
Muhammadanism is insulting to Muslims, we don't worship Prophet Muhammad (peace be to him), we worship the one and only God, God of Abraham.
Still it's neither incorrect nor disrespectful to name a people after their human leader, and Mohammed founded the religion. Nonetheless this is surely why we stopped calling it that in the late 1960s. There were a few years before the seizure of the embassy in Tehran and definitively ending with the attack on the WTC, when the American people (as distinct from the scoundrels who have taken over our government) were beginning to feel cordial toward Muslims and strove to treat them more decently, especially in matters that only required linguistic energy.
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be to him) is the last prophet and the seal of the prophets. More is known about him than is known about Prophets Jesus and Abraham (peace be to them), simply because he is the latest of the prophets, the prophet sent to guide all of humanity.
Not to mention, he was a real person.
Jesus was almost certainly not.
Egypt & Egyptian both look wrong, like the g & y should swap? "Eygpt" I spell it either way, looks like its spelled wrong
The Ancient Egyptians called their country Kemet. (The vowels are arbitrary hypotheses since they only wrote the consonants.) "Egypt" comes down to us from the Greek words
aegaeon yptios which simply means "below the Aegean." The Romans adopted the name and it eventually became standard throughout Europe. It has no other significance and is not a relic of Egyptian civilization or language.
