Is Islam a Messianic religion in the vein of Judaism and Christianity

Sulla Felix

Just wondering. I'm basing this on the premise (true afaik) that the fundamental disagreement between Judaism and Christianity is that one believes the Messiah has already arrived (~Jesus) and the other doesn't and that it will happen at some stage in the future. Then again, now that I think on it, Jews don't generally talk that up in the same way some Christians talk up the Second Coming etc. So I could be wrong.

Anyway, where does Islam fall in? There's a share heritage, I think some of the Jewish prophets and Jesus at least are venerated but they're prophets with no capital p, whereas Mohammed is the Prophet. Prophet for me at least implies prophecy, so was Mohammed prophecizing a future Messiah the way Judaean tradition does or was he prophecizing something else?

whydoc

The Messiah is the central figure of the largest religion in the world, as Christianity was formed around Jesus’ messiahship. Judaism also gives the Messiah a special and high position, although it denies that Jesus was the Messiah, so the Jews continue to wait for the coming of their Messiah.
The Qur’an confirms the Christian belief that Jesus was the Messiah, but it has fundamental differences with the Christian representation of the Messiah. Islam has even more differences with the Jewish concept of the Messiah.


However the fundemental disagreement between islam and others are the concept of monotheism that necessitate believing in all prophets of God.
http://wp.me/p28kxQ-1Y


http://www.islamhouse.com/p/395994


Prophet Jesus' (pbuh) return will cause religion's morality to pervade all over the world and all sincere believers to attain security.
http://harunyahya.com/en/books/2684/The_Signs_of_Prophet_Jesus_%28pbuh%29_Second_Coming/chapter/3712