Isaac or Ismael?

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Not to belabor a point, but now you are just being patronizing. Mohammed along with Jesus, being prophets "like unto Moses" recognizes the prestige and esteem of Moses, whereas being a prophet like unto Hud or Eber, would not.

I don't think being a "Prophet like unto Moses" has much to do with prestige or esteem." Moses was said be different from other Prophets because He saw God face-to-face. As the Qur'an states, no one does this literally so what I consider this to mean is that these figures have a Divine Knowledge which is innate and not acquired. But since I don't know anything about the spiritual station of Hud, Salih, etc. I will concede the point.

More pages are dedicated in the Koran to Moses than to any other.

I would have thought it was Abraham, but I just checked and apparently you are correct. Moses is important because the Sinai event sets the stage for the Day of Alast in Islam, the primordial Covenant of God. But that is a topic for another thread. I wrote an article about this which you can read here:
A Baha'i Perspective of Islam

 

[AskTheFamily]

Moses is the most repeated because he is symbolic of over throwing oppressors as the true ruler and leader of humanity, which Mohammad was also claiming to be doing, and said he was sent to the Quraysh (the ruling tribe of the Arabs) as Moses was sent to Pharaoh, and to free the poor and oppressed from the oppressive system that had taken place. The story was repeated to show the "taghut" vs "God's Authority via his chosen ones".

In fact, the rejection of the Taghut and acceptance of God's authority is so repeated in Quran, that I'm always mind boggled how majority of Muslim scholars interpreted 4:59 in other than that light.