What they shared was a conviction that Judaism was defined by ethical monotheism and Messianic hope.
Because Cohen thought the ethical nature of Judaism was expressed by its monotheism, he believed that at least some forms of Christianity had the same ethical nature.
Muhammad's disparate following was exceptionally vulnerable, bound together not by kinship ties but by a "generic" monotheism that involved being faithful (muʾmin) to the message God was sending through their leader.
Also Kindian is the effort to accommodate Islamic monotheism, by insisting on the oneness and willful action of God, and by adopting the Porphyrian theme of the harmony between Aristotle's and Plato's teaching.
I, too, was in town on a pilgrimage, visiting a site that predates Abraham and Job and monotheism by some eight millennia: a vast complex of Stonehenge-style megalithic circles in the Urfa countryside.
Sabellianism, named after Sabellius (flourished c. 220), possibly a Roman presbyter, sought to preserve a strict monotheism by holding that Jesus was a form of the one God, a temporary mode of God's revelation.
From recognition of basic similarities one might reason to a sort of monotheism, by the lights of which, for persons given to theology, local deities were no more than narrow expressions of greater truths.
For example Chapter 4, Patriarchal Business Models, contains a description of how Abraham began successfully building the brand of monotheism by using a bold marketing technique, namely smashing all the idols in his father's shop.
In short, Venkatanatha preserves monotheism by denying that God and his divine consort are ontologically distinct.
