Noah's other son : bridging the gap between the Bible and the Qur'an /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of 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.