Noah's Other Son : Bridging the Gap Between the Bible and the Qur'an

by Brown, Brian Arthur

• ISBN13: 9780826427977
• ISBN10: 0826427979
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Brown helps Jews and Christians understand the role that several biblical figures from their own traditions play in Islam.

Table of Contents

Prologue : exploring common ground, from ground zero to holy ground	p. 13
Cast of characters : the English and Arabic names of scriptural personages	p. 19
Preface : translations, versions, sources, context, and spellings	p. 21
Higher than angels : Adam/Aadam	p. 29
Raising Cain : Cain and Abel/Qabeel and Habeel	p. 38
Noah's other son : Noah/Nooh	p. 45
Towering ambition Babel/Babylon	p. 55
The patriarch : Abraham/Ibrahim	p. 68
The matriarch : Hagar/Hajra	p. 78
The Archer's jihad : Ishmael/Ismail	p. 86
The Hajj of life : Lot/Lut	p. 94
The covenant : Yaqub/Jacob	p. 104
The dream : Yusuf/Joseph	p. 112
The foundation : Musa/Moses	p. 122
Three Kings : Saul, David, Solomon/Talut, Dawoud, Sulaimon	p. 134
Women who have names : Bilqis, Zulaika, Khadija, Farima, Maryam, Asiya/Ruth	p. 143
Cameo appearances : Enoch/Idris, Job/Ayyub, Isaac/Ishaq, Joshua/Yusha, Goliath/Galoot, Aaron/Haroon, Elijah/Illiyas, Ezekiel/Zul-Kifi, Aman/Haman, Ezra/Uzair, Jonah/Yunus, and Children of Isreal/Bani Israel	p. 153
The mother of Jesus : Mary/Maryam	p. 163
The Temple : Zacharias/Zakariya, John/Yahya	p. 175
Son of man, son of God, son of Mary : Jesus/'Isa	p. 187
The dome : Muhammad	p. 207
Bearing faithful witness united church-Jewish relations today	p. 231
That we may know each other united church-Muslim relations today	p. 235
Afterword : the bridge between Judaism and Islam by Rabbi Reuven Firestone	p. 237
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