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" Noah's other son "
/ Brian Arthur Brown
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The Center of European Languages of Qom(Ale Beit Publications)
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BL
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3320
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b98
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English
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| Main Entry
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Brown, Brian A., 1942
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Noah's other son:bridging the gap between the Bible and the Qur'an/ Brian Arthur Brown
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Continuum,, 2007.
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xii, 244 p.: ; 24 cm.
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9780826427977(hardcover : alk.paper)
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Print
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-244).
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| Contents
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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/Isa -- 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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QurضanRelation to the Bible
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261.2.7
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BP134.B4,B76 2007
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