List of people in both the Bible and the Quran

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The Bible and Quran have many characters in common, many of which are mentioned by name, whereas others are merely referred to. This article is a list of people named or referred to in both in the Bible and the Quran.

Identified by name in the Quran[]

Image Bible (English) Quran (Arabic) Hebrew Notes Bible Verse Quaranic Verse
Aaron (Kirillo-Belozersk).jpg Aaron Hārūn/
Haron/
Haroon 		Aharon Exodus 7:1 Quran 19:28[1]
Patriarch Abraham.jpg Abraham Ibrāhīm/
Ebraheem/
Ebrahim/
Ibrāheem 		Avraham Genesis 17:3–5 Quran 2:124
Michelangelo, Creation of Adam 03.jpg Adam Ādam Adam Genesis 5:2 Quran 3:59
Amram ʿImrān/'Emrān Amram Islamic tradition holds both Amram and Joachim are named the same. Although Islamic studies of the beginning of the 20th century tended to note genealogical discrepancies, in more recent Islamic Studies of the 21st century the general consensus is that the Quran does not make a genealogical error but instead makes use of typology.[2] This is supported by the figurative speech of the Quran and the Islamic tradition, as words like "sister" and "daughter" can indicate extended kinship, descendance or spiritual affinity.[3][4][5][6] Exodus 6:20 Quran 3:33
'David' by Michelangelo Fir JBU002.jpg King David Dāwūd/Dāūd Dawid 1 Samuel 17:58 Quran 2:251
Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles by Constantinople master (early 14th c., Pushkin museum).jpg The Apostles al-Hawariyyūn Mark 3:16–19 Quran 61:14[7]
Elijah Icon Sinai c1200.jpg Elijah (Elias) Ilyās/Elyās Eliyyahu 2 Kings 1:8 Quran 37:123
Пророк Елисей (13922964524).jpg Elisha al-Yasaʿ Elishaʿ Also can be pronounced Alīsaʿ 1 Kings 19:16 Quran 6:86
Enoch in the clouds above a group of people at a festival. E Wellcome V0034206.jpg Enoch Idrīs Chanokh Idris is not universally identified with Enoch, many Muslim scholars of the classical and medieval periods also held that Idris and Hermes Trismegistus were the same person.[8][9] Genesis 5:24 Quran 19:56
0 Le Prophète Ézéchiel - P.P. Rubens - Louvre (IN V 20231).JPG Ezekiel Ḥizkīl
"Dhul-Kifl" 		Yechezkel Ezekiel 1:3 Quran 38:48
Esdras-Ezra.jpg Ezra ʿUzair Ezra Ezra 7:1 Quran 9:30
Titian - Polyptych of the Resurrection - Archangel Gabriel - WGA22785.jpg Gabriel Jibrīl Gavri'el Luke 1:19 Quran 2:97
Magog.PNG Gog and Magog Ya'juj wa-Ma'juj Gog U-Magog Ezekiel 38:2 Quran 21:96
Tycjan David i Goliat.jpg Goliath Jālūṭ Golyat 1 Samuel 17:4 Quran 2:251
Isaac a Lover of Peace.jpg Isaac Isħāq Yitzhak Genesis 17:19 Quran 19:49
Calligraphy Ismail.jpg Ishmael Ismāʿīl Yishmaʿel Genesis 16:11 Quran 38:48
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 063.jpg Jacob Yaʿkūb Yaʿkov Genesis 32:1 Quran 19:49
Tissot Jethro and Moses.jpg Jethro Shoʿeib Yitro Exodus 3:1 Quran 26:177
Spas vsederzhitel sinay.jpg Jesus ʿĪsā Yeshua Matthew 1:16 Quran 3:59
SaintJoachim.jpg Joachim or Heli ʿImrān Yehoyaqim Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram probably as a play on the sharing of names and even calls Mary the sister of Aaron,[10] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit, although many people see this as a mistake, this question was actually reported to have been put across to Muhammad to which he replied: "The (people of the old age) used to give names (to their persons) after the names of Apostles and pious persons who had gone before them".[11] Luke 3:23 Quran 19:28
Léon Bonnat - Job.jpg Job ʾAyyūb Iyyov Job 1:1 Quran 6:84
Saint John The Baptist Preaching In The Wilderness by Anton Raphael.png John the Baptist Yaḥyā Yohanan Yaḥyā means 'living' as opposed to Yūḥānna ('graceful'), which comes from Hebrew Yoḥanan. Luke 1:13 Quran 19:7
Sistine jonah.jpg Jonah Yūnas/
Yūnes/
Yūnus/
Yūnis
"Dhun-Nun" 		Yonah Possibly derived from Greek Ionas Jonah 3:4 Quran 37:139
Bourgeois Joseph recognized by his brothers.jpg Joseph Yūsif Yosef Genesis 30:24 Quran 6:84
Peter Paul Rubens 076.jpg Lot Lūṭ Lot Genesis 11:27 Quran 66:10
Sodom Monreal.jpg Lot's wife Lūṭ's wife She is nameless both in the Bible and in the Quran. Genesis 19:26  Quran 26:170
Sassoferrato - Jungfrun i bön.jpg Mary Maryam Mariam Matthew 1:16 Quran 19:34
Feuerbach Mirjam 2.jpg Miriam Mūsā's sister Miriam Exodus 6:20 Quran 28:11
Luca Giordano - The Fall of the Rebel Angels - Google Art Project.jpg Michael Mīkāīl Mikhael Revelation 12:7 Quran 19:54
Philippe de Champaigne - Moses with the Ten Commandments - WGA04717.jpg Moses Mūsā Moshe Exodus 6:20 Quran 33:7
York Minster, Great East Window, T2, Noah and the Ark.jpg Noah Nūḥ Nukh Genesis 5:29 Quran 33:7
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh.jpg Pharaoh Firʿawn Paroh Exodus 1:11 Quran 20:60
The Queen of Sheba (2131716999).jpg Queen of Sheba Queen of Sabaʾ; Bilqīs Malkat Saba She is nameless both in the Bible and in the Quran. but The name Bilqīs or Balqīs comes from Islamic tradition. 1 Kings 10:1 Quran 27:29
Saul and David by Rembrandt Mauritshuis 621.jpg Saul the King Ṭālūt Sha'ul Literally 'Tall'; Meant to rhyme with Lūṭ or Jālūṭ. 1 Samuel 17:33 Quran 2:246
1-Luzifer.jpg Devil or Satan Shaitān / Iblīs HaSatan Iblīs, literally 'despaired'; Possibly derived from Greek Diabolus. Genesis 3:14 Quran 7:11
Åhus kyrka-07.jpg Solomon Sulaymān Shlomoh 1 Kings 10:23 Quran 34:12
Terah.jpg Terah Āzar
(Tāraḥ/Tārakḥ
among Arab
genealogists
and Shiites) 		Terah There is a disagreement with regards to Āzar being Abraham's biological father or uncle.[12][13][14]

It is claimed that Āzar is derived from Syriac Āthar (see Church History (Eusebius)[citation needed]), which is derived from Hebrew Táraḥ, Thara or Zarah.

Genesis 11:24 Quran 6:74
Hosios Loukas (south cross-arm) - Zacharias by shakko.jpg Zechariah Zakariyyā Zekaryah Luke 1:13 Quran 19:7
Zimri (prince) al-Samiri Zimri ben Salu Al-Samīri is derived from Eastern Syriac 'Zamri, which is derived from Hebrew Zimri. Numbers 25:14 Quran 20:85

Not identified by name in the Quran[]

Sarah, Hagar, Zipporah, Elizabeth, Raphael, Cain and Abel, Korah, Joseph's brothers, Potiphar and his wife, Eve, Jochebed, Samuel, Noah's sons, and Noah's wife are mentioned, but unnamed in the Quran.

In Islamic Tradition, these people are given the following names:

Bible (English) Arabic
Sarah Sara
Hagar Hajar
Elizabeth al-Isbat
Eve Hawah
Cain Qabil
Abel Habil
Joshua Yusha-bin-Noon

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Qu'ran 19:28
  2. ^ Michael Marx: Glimpses of a Mariology in the Qur'an; in: A. Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx (Hrsg.): The Qur'ān in Context. Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qur'ānic Milieu. Leiden 2011. pp. 533–563.
  3. ^ Arent Jan Wensinck: Maryam. In: A. J. Wensinck, J. H. Kramers (Hrsg.): Handwörterbuch des Islam. pp. 421–423.
  4. ^ A. J. Wensinck (Penelope Johnstone), "Maryam" in C. E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W. P. Heinrichs & Ch. Pellat (Eds.), The Encyclopaedia Of Islam (New Edition), 1991, Volume VI, p. 630. Maryam is called a sister of Hārūn (sūra XIX, 29), and the use of these three names ‘Imrān, Hārūn and Maryam, has led to the supposition that the Kur'ān does not clearly distinguished between the two Maryams, of the Old and the New Testaments. The Kur'ān names two families as being especially chosen: those of Ibrāhim and of ‘Imrān (sūra III, 32). It is the family of ‘Imrān, important because of Moses and Aaron, to which Maryam belongs. It is not necessary to assume that these kinship links are to interpreted in modern terms. The words "sister" and "daughter", like their male counterparts, in Arabic usage can indicate extended kinship, descendance or spiritual affinity. This second ‘Imrān, together with Harun, can be taken as purely Kur'ānic... Muslim tradition is clear that there are eighteen centuries between the Biblical ‘Amram and the father of Marya.
  5. ^ B. F. Stowasser, Women In The Qur'an, Traditions, And Interpretation, 1994, Oxford University Press: New York, p. 393-394.
  6. ^ Aliah Schleifer, Mary The Blessed Virgin Of Islam, 1998, op. cit., p. 36.
  7. ^ Quran 61:14
  8. ^ W.F. Albright, Review of Th. Boylan, The hermes of Egypt, in Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society 2 (1922), 190-8
  9. ^ H. T. Halman, "Idris," in Holy People of the World: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2004), p. 388
  10. ^ Clooney S.J., Francis X., "What Islam really teaches about the Virgin Mary", America, December 18, 2015
  11. ^ 60 hadith found in 'The Book on General Behaviour (Kitab Al-Adab)' of Sahih Muslim.
  12. ^ "Was Azar the Father of Prophet Abraham?". Al-Islam.org. 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  13. ^ "Suratul Baqarah: Verses 62". Al-Islam.org (in Spanish). 2013-01-30. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
  14. ^ "Marriage". Al-Islam.org. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2020-09-30.

Bibliography[]

  • Wheeler, Brannon (2006). "Dhu Al-Qarnayn". In Leaman, Oliver (ed.). The Qur'an: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis.
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