Academic Periodical

The aim of the article is to show how the image of Moses in the Koran and Muslim lore correlates with its interpretations in Judaic and Christian traditions. Most discrepancies of these interpretations which we find while comparing Koran text with the Bible can be removed by addressing non-canonical Judaic and Christian texts. Sensational thematic and compositional similarity of the protreptic Midrash parables, hagiographic narratives formed in the monastic sphere in the protobyzantine period, and legends which we find in Muslim commentaries on the Koran and “Stories of the Prophets” give evidence, according to the author, not of the direct borrowings, but only of the common ideologic depositary of the three theistic traditions.