Encyclopedia of Islam

Further reading: Maurice Bucaille, The Bible, the Quran 

and Science: The Holy Scriptures Examined in the Light 

of Modern Knowledge. Translated by Alastair D. Pannell 

and Maurice Bucaille (Indianapolis: American Trust 

Publications, 1979); Jan Knappert, Islamic Legends: His-

tories of the Heroes, Saints and Prophet of Islam. 2 vols. 

(Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985), 1:23–41; Manjhan, Madhum-

alati: An Indian Sufi Romance (Oxford: Oxford University 

Press, 2000); Thomas J. O’Shaughnessy, Creation and 

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the Teaching of the Quran (Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 

1985); Annemarie Schimmel, “Creation and Judgment in 

the Koran and in Mystico-Poetic Interpretation.” In We 

Believe in One God, edited by Annemarie Schimmel and 

Abdoljavad Falaturi, 149–177 (New York: Seabury Press, 

1979); Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Thalabi, Arais al-maja-

lis fi qisas al-anbiya, or “Lives of the Prophets.” Translated 

by William M. Brinner (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002).

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