Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islamnot as a result of Noah having been rejected by his people or having prayed
for help against them. The legends of the Jews also follow the Biblical
structure; cf. Ginzberg, Legends of the Bible, p. 71. Geiger (WMJA, p. 108)
appears to have misinterpreted this Qur'an passage in noting a similarity
between Noah being rejected by his people in 54:9-17 and Rabbinic
writings which depict Noah as being mocked for building the ark.
[9] This is one of the earliest passages mentioning Lot by name, which
name seems to have come from the Syriac and does not appear to have
predated Muhammad in Arabic; Jeffery, Vocabulary, pp. 254 f. See n. 10,
below.
[10] The Biblical narrations about both Lot and Pharaoh do not show that
either the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, or Pharaoh's house were warned
of their doom.
[11] Verse 43 also gives one of the first usages of the word "zabur," which
although used here as "scripture," is thought to have come into Arabic prior
to Muhammad's time as a corruption of Jewish or Christian terms for the
Psalms; Jeffery, Vocabulary, pp. 148 f.
[12] The codex of Ibn Mas`ud; cf. Jeffery, Materials, p. 94.
[13] Cf. Rudolph, Koran, p. 477, n. 15.
[14] Blachère places Qur'an 68 directly after sura 54 in his list; cf.
Appendix B.
[15] See pp. 49 f, above.
[16] Cf. Qur'an 26:223; 15:18; 72:9; etc. on the eavesdropping of spirits.
[17] Cf. Matt. 13:41f.
[18] Cf. I Pet. 1:17; Ps. 62:12; etc.
[19] Cf. Dt. 10:20.
[20] Cf. Rev. 2:11; 20:14.