THE BIBLE, THE KORAN, AND THE TALMUD;

OR,

BIBLICAL LEGENDS

OF

THE MUSSULMANS,

COMPILED FROM ARABIC SOURCES, AND COMPARED WITH
JEWISH TRADITIONS.

BY

Justar

DR. G. WEI L,

LIBRARIAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG,

FELLOW OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF PARIS,
&c. &c. &c.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN,

WITH OCCASIONAL NOTES.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

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 Mohanedans as the inspired biographies of the ancient patriarchs and prophets.

It must still further be added that the leading ideas of these Mohamedan legends, i. e. their prominent historical narratives, and the doctrines and precepts which they either state expressly, or imply, are contained in the Koran. In some instances it gives their minutest particulars. Indeed it would seem as if these legends formed part at least of what the founder of the Mohamedan faith terms "the mother of the book," indicating that they preceded his Koran in order of time, and embodied the gorm of that faith which he subsequently developed.

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