It is worth mentioning that according to early Christian reports of Islam (St. John of Damascus), Muhammad’s encounter with Christianity – and therefore the kin

It is worth mentioning that according to early Christian reports of Islam (St. John of Damascus), Muhammad’s encounter with Christianity – and therefore the kind of Christianity that he was suppposedly preaching the same message of – was with Nestorianism. Nestorianism had already been denounced as a heresy by the core of the Christian world and consigned to the margins like Central Asia. The Byzantine Christian world especially was very insistent on christological formulations as a way of distinguishing the God that one worshiped. Groups like the Nestorians which held a different christological formulation were seen as worshipping a different god. No surprise this attitude also extended to Islam with its history of contact with Nestorianism and then a drastically different view of Christ.