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26. The Book of Jubilees, ed. A. Kahana (Tel Aviv: Masada, 1956), 22:24 (He-
    brew).


27. U. Rubin, Hanifiyya and Ka ̔ba, 109.


28. Ibid., 107.


29. Geiger, Judaism and Islam, 73; and H. Lazarus-Yafeh, “The Pilgrimage Religious
    Problems in Islam,” Israel Academy of Science and Humanities 5 (1976): 223–24.


30. S. D. Goitein, The Islam of Muhammad (Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1956), 99
    (Hebrew).


31. Genesis 12:7–8; 13:4, 18.


32. Sabbath 88a; Bereshit Rabba (Albeck edition), 39:16; Bammidbar Rabba (Jerusa-
    lem, reprint of Wilna edition, 1882), 10 (Hebrew).


33. See Geiger, Judaism and Islam, 99.


34. Cf. Jubilees 12:17–20; Bammidbar Rabba 14:2. In Bet ha-Midrash 2, ed. A. Jellinek
    (Leipzig, 1853; Vienna, 1878), the story is more similar to the story in the Quran.


35. Bereshit Rabba (Albeck and Wilna), 38:13; Midrasch Hagadol Genesis, ed. M. Mar-
    gulies (Jerusalem, 1947), 12:1 (Hebrew).


36. Cf. Guthrie, “The Significance of Abraham,” 117.


37. R. Tottoli, Biblical Prophets in the Qur’ān and Muslim Literature, trans. from Italian
    by M. Robertson (Richmond: Curzon, 2002), 25.


38. Genesis 12:1–6.


39. J. Kaltner, Ishmael Instructs Isaac (Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 1999), 112.


40. Genesis 15:8–21.


41. For another instance in which Muhammad omits the topic of the Promised Land,
    see the discussion of Ur of the Chaldeans, above in section 3.


42. Midrash Hagadol, Genesis, Lech Lecha 17.


43. Abba Hanan is third generation of the Tanaim (approximately second century
    CE), which means that it is a very old Jewish tradition.


44. Geiger, Judaism and Islam, 100.


45. Ezekiel 37:1–11.


46. The visit of the angels is briefly mentioned in other suras: 15:51–60 and 29:31–32.


47. Baba Mezia 86b.


48. Tabari, Tafsir al-Tabari min Kitabihi Jami al-Bayan ́An Tawil Aiy al-Koran. B, 4
    (Beirut: Dar al-Fikr, 1994), 293.


49. Tabari, Ta’rikh al-Rusul wa-l-Muluk (Leiden, 1964), 1:250.


50. Baidawi, Anuar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Tawil (Ausenbrook: Bibliu 1968), 1:440.


51. Ibid., 2:285.


52. Al-Jalalayn, Tafsir al-Imamayn al-Jalalayn (Beirut: Dar al-Ma’rifa, n.d.), 295.


53. Geiger, Judaism and Islam, 102.


54. Genesis 18:23–32.


55. Genesis 22:1–2.


56. This collection is a midrashic work on Genesis, part of Exodus, and on a few
    sentences on Numbers, ascribed to Eliezer ben Hyarcanus and composed in Italy shortly
    after 833 CE.


57. Pirke Rabbi Eliezer (New York: M. Higger ed., 1948), 31:6 (Hebrew).