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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Brian A., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Relation to the Bible.

Qurʼan.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2007.

Summary:

The title of the book comes from the description of believers in the Abrahamic faith traditions in the Qur'an. Brown very simply proceeds through his book to help Jews and Christians understand the role that several biblical figures from their own traditions play in Islam. Do Christians know, for example, that Jesus in the Qur'an was speaking about Muhammad when he promised to send an Advocate or Comforter? Who would have imagined that Noah had a rebellious son who refused to get on the ark? Brown uses this method of examining scriptural characters as a way of seeing Islam in its pure light, without the distortions of history or individual failings.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244).

ISBN:

9780826427977

0826427979

OCLC:

79256767