Translator's Preface : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. iii TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. DR. WEIL has stated, in his Introduction to these Legends, that he chiefly extracted them from original Arabic records, which are still received by Mohammedans as the inspired biographies of the ancient patriarchs and prophets. It...
Idris, Or Enoch : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 48 IDRIS, OR ENOCH. IDRIS, or Enoch, was the son of Jarid, the son of Mahlalel, but was called Idris, from darasa (to study), for he was constantly occupied with the study of the holy books, both those which Allah had revealed to Adam, and those which...
Solomon And The Queen Of Saba : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 200 SOLOMON AND THE QUEEN OF SABA. AFTER Solomon had paid the last honors to his father, he was resting in a valley between Hebron and Jerusalem, when suddenly he swooned away. On reviving, there appeared to him eight angels, each of whom had immeasurable...
Samuel, Saul, And David : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 171 SAMUEL, SAUL, AND DAVID. THE Israelites lived under Joshua (who was, however, not a prophet, but merely a virtuous prince and valiant chief) conformably to the laws revealed by Moses; the Lord therefore enabled them to expel the giants from the l...
Adam : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 19 BIBLICAL LEGENDS, FROM THE ARABIC, &C., &C. ADAM. (A MOHAMMEDAN LEGEND.) THE most authentic records of antiquity which have come down to us state that Adam was created on Friday afternoon, at the hour of Assr.* The four most exalted angels, Gabriel...
Untitled : Sacred-Texts Islam THE BIBLE, THE KORAN, AND THE TALMUD; OR, BIBLICAL LEGENDS OF THE MUSSULMANS. BY DR. G. WEIL, TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN. [NEW YORK, 1863] {reduced To HTML By Christopher M. Weimer, June 2003} This smallish book is a collection of Islamic stories of the prophets, a genre which...
Moses And Aaron : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 114 MOSES AND AARON. WHEN the time had come in which Allah again designed to send a prophet on the earth, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had three dreams in one night. In his first dream he heard a voice which called, "Pharaoh, repent! The end of thy domini...
Noah, Hud, And Salih : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 53 NOAH, HUD, AND SALIH. AFTER the translation of Idris, the depravity of men waxed so mightily, that Allah determined to destroy them by a flood. But the prophet Noah, who had in vain attempted to restore his followers to the path of virtue, was saved:...
The Bible, The Koran, And The Talmud.Title Page : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Next THE BIBLE, THE KORAN, AND THE TALMUD; OR, BIBLICAL LEGENDS OF THE MUSSULMANS. COMPILED FROM ARABIC SOURCES, AND COMPARED WITH JEWISH TRADITIONS. BY DR. G. WEIL, LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, FELLOW OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS, &c., &c., &c. TRANSLATED...
Introduction : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. vii INTRODUCTION. MOHAMMED has been frequently reproached with having altered and added most arbitrarily to the religious history of the Jews and Christians, two important considerations not being sufficiently borne in mind. In the first place, it is...
John, Mary, And Christ : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous p. 249 JOHN, MARY, AND CHRIST. THERE once lived in Palestine a man named Amram Ibn Mathan, who had attained to a great age without being blessed with posterity. Shortly before his death his wife Hanna prayed to the Lord that he might not suffer her to die...
Abraham : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 68 ABRAHAM. SOON after the death of Salih, the prophet Abraham was born at Susa, or, according to others, at Babylon. He was a contemporary of the mighty king, Nimrod, and his birth falls into the year 1081 after the Flood, which happened in 2242...
Joseph : Sacred-Texts Islam Index Previous Next p. 97 JOSEPH. JOSEPH, the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, was from his childhood the darling of his father; and as he lived with an aunt at a distance from his home, Jacob's constant longing for him added much to the fervor of his parental...