The Quran mentions Musa by name around a hundred and thirty-six times, more than any other individual, and the reason is structural rather than sentimental: his career is the template the Meccan suras use to tell the Prophet what is coming. Confront the tyrant, be called a magician, watch your people waver, leave. The Israelites in the Quran function as a mirror for the Muslim community — a people given everything and repeatedly failing to keep it — which is a genuinely self-critical use of another nation's scripture. Muslims also inherit Musa through law: the Quran affirms the Torah as revelation while holding that its text was altered, a doctrine called tahrif that Jewish and Muslim scholars have argued about for a millennium. On the night journey he is the one who understands bureaucracy, sending Muhammad back to negotiate the prayer count down from fifty to five.