Editing Gospel of Barnabas (section)

==== Rejection ====
The Gospel of Barnabas is criticized by Muslim scholars,<ref name="answer" />{{rp|298}} who reject it partially<ref name="sura">{{Cite book |title=The Qur'an and the Cross—A Study of Al-Nisa (4):157: 'and They Did Not Kill Him and Did Not Crucify Him, But It Was Made to Appear So to Them' |date=2020 |publisher=[[LIT Verlag]] |last=O'Brien |first=Jack |isbn=978-36-43910-82-0 }}</ref>{{rp|101}} or completely.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://religiondispatches.org/muslim-gospel-revealing-the-christian-truth-excites-the-da-vinci-code-set/ |title='Muslim Gospel' Revealing the 'Christian Truth' Excites The Da Vinci Code Set |date=22 May 2014 |work=[[Religion Dispatches]] |last=Reed |first=Annette Yoshiko |access-date=27 May 2022 |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031104258/https://religiondispatches.org/muslim-gospel-revealing-the-christian-truth-excites-the-da-vinci-code-set/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to American scholar [[Amina Inloes]], the many differences between the gospel and the Quran dilute its importance.<ref name="forgery" /> In the January 1977 issue of the ''Islamic World League'' journal, Syrian writer Yahya al-Hashimi called it a polemic by a Jew to generate hostility between Christians and Muslims.<ref name="Sox" />{{rp|115}}<ref name="de" /> Al-Hashimi said that there was no need to use apocryphal gospels to prove that Muhammad was a prophet, because he believed Muhammad had been foretold by Jesus as the [[Paraclete#Islam|Paraclete]] in the [[Gospel of John]].<ref name="de" /> Egyptian literary critic [[Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad]] cited several reasons to reject the gospel, including the use of [[Andalusi Arabic]] phrases and teachings which conflict with the Quran.<ref name="value" />{{rp|34}}<ref name="de" />