What are the similarities between the three Abrahamic religions?

Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam are what are termed "Abrahamic religions" because they all
share scriptural texts. The Jewish "Old Testament," God, and figures such as Moses and
Abraham are shared among all three faiths; the "New Testament" and Jesus Christ are
present in Christianity and Islam; and the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad are unique to Islam.
Thus the first areas of similarity are found in the shared scriptural texts, including the
account of the origin of the world in Genesis.

All three religions are
monotheistic, believing in the existence of a single God and condemning all beliefs in other
gods as heretical or infidel. Although some thinkers in all three religious traditions advocate
ecumenism, all three have a history of intolerance of rival religious beliefs, unlike, for
example, ancient polytheistic religions, which admitted a wide range of gods and spirits and
readily made room for diverse belief systems.

All three religions believe in
some form of afterlife and...