Muhammad, the Qur'an and Islam[301] The Qur'anic names for Lot, Aaron, Elias, Baal, Isaac, Jonah, Iblis,
Zacharias, John, Mary, Jesus (possibly), Ishmael, Idris, Israel, Solomon,
Job, Gog and Magog appear to have come from Christian sources; cf.
Appendix E. Qur'anic names which do not appear to have predated
Muhammad are: Lot, Iblis, Zacharias, Mary, Jesus, Idris, Gog and Magog.
[302] Exceptions being, of course, the narratives of the suras 19, 36 and
18.
[303] Andrae, Mohammed, p. 102, cites Epiphanius, Haer. 30, 18. In the
Pseudo-Clementine literature, (Recognitions of Clement, book 2, ch. 47,
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8, p. 110) the prophets Adam, Enoch, Noah,
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus are mentioned by Simon.
[304] See p. 87, above.
[305] The word for "gourd" (n. 30) was possibly from Hebrew, the words
for "manna" (n. 66), "quail" (n. 66), furqan (n. 238), milla (n. 191),
al-Raqim (n. 282), seem to have come from Syriac, along with sijill (n. 249)
which was at least influenced by the Greek; the words rahwun (n. 40), tabut
(n. 60) and burhan (n. 233) appear to have come from Ethiopic.
[306] Generally speaking, Ethiopic terms found in the text of the Qur'an
are used more in accordance with their original meanings than vocabulary
borrowed from Syriac; cf. Appendix C, pp. 357 f. There is some evidence
that Muhammad may have known at least some Ethiopic; Jeffery,
Vocabulary, p. 11; EI², s.v. "al-Nadjashi," p. 862.