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Noah's other son : bridging the gap between the Bible and the Qur'an / Brian Arthur Brown.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Continuum, 2007.Description: xii, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780826427977 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780826429407
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 261.2/7 22
LOC classification:
  • BP134.B4 B76 2007
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Contents:
Foreword / Salman Rushdie -- Introduction : people of the book -- Prologue : exploring common ground, from ground zero to holy ground -- Cast of characters : the English and Arabic names of scriptural personages -- Preface : translations, versions, sources, context, and spellings -- Higher than angels : Adam/Aadam -- Raising Cain : Cain and Abel/Qabeel and Habeel -- Noah's other son : Noah/Nooh -- Towering ambition : Babel/Babylon -- The patriarch : Abraham/Ibrahim -- The matriarch : Hagar/Hajra -- The archer's Jihad : Ishmael/Ismail -- The Hajj of life : Lot/Lut -- The covenant : Yaqub/Jacob -- The dream : Yusuf/Joseph -- The foundation : Musa/Moses -- Three kings : Saul, David, Solomon/Talut, Dawoud, Sulaimon -- Women who have names : Bilqis, Zulaika, Khadija, Fatima, Maryam, Asiya/Ruth -- 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 -- The mother of Jesus : Mary/Maryam -- The temple : Zacharias/Zakariya, John/Yahya -- Son of Man, Son of God, Son of Mary : Jesus/ʻIsa -- The dome : Muhammad -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : Bearing faithful witness : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Appendix II : Thas we may know each other : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Afterword : the bridge between Judaism and Islam by Rabbi Reuven Firestone -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244).

Foreword / Salman Rushdie -- Introduction : people of the book -- Prologue : exploring common ground, from ground zero to holy ground -- Cast of characters : the English and Arabic names of scriptural personages -- Preface : translations, versions, sources, context, and spellings -- Higher than angels : Adam/Aadam -- Raising Cain : Cain and Abel/Qabeel and Habeel -- Noah's other son : Noah/Nooh -- Towering ambition : Babel/Babylon -- The patriarch : Abraham/Ibrahim -- The matriarch : Hagar/Hajra -- The archer's Jihad : Ishmael/Ismail -- The Hajj of life : Lot/Lut -- The covenant : Yaqub/Jacob -- The dream : Yusuf/Joseph -- The foundation : Musa/Moses -- Three kings : Saul, David, Solomon/Talut, Dawoud, Sulaimon -- Women who have names : Bilqis, Zulaika, Khadija, Fatima, Maryam, Asiya/Ruth -- 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 -- The mother of Jesus : Mary/Maryam -- The temple : Zacharias/Zakariya, John/Yahya -- Son of Man, Son of God, Son of Mary : Jesus/ʻIsa -- The dome : Muhammad -- Epilogue -- Appendix I : Bearing faithful witness : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Appendix II : Thas we may know each other : United Church-Jewish relations today -- Afterword : the bridge between Judaism and Islam by Rabbi Reuven Firestone -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography.

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