Editing Quran (section)

== Relationship with other literature ==
Some non-Muslim groups such as the [[Baháʼí Faith]] and [[Druze]] view the Quran as holy. In the Baháʼí Faith, the Quran is accepted as authentic revelation from God along with the revelations of the other world religions, Islam being viewed as a stage within the divine process of [[Progressive revelation (Baháʼí)|progressive revelation]]. [[Baháʼu'lláh|Bahá'u'lláh]], the Prophet-Founder of the Baháʼí Faith, wrote about the Quran.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Kitáb-i-Íqán |website=Bahá'í Reference Library |url=https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/bahaullah/kitab-i-iqan/5#335712027 |access-date=6 August 2021}}</ref> [[Unitarian Universalism|Unitarian Universalists]] may also seek inspiration from the Quran. It has been suggested that the Quran has some narrative similarities to the [[Diatessaron]], [[Gospel of James|Protoevangelium of James]], [[Infancy Gospel of Thomas]], [[Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew]] and the [[Syriac Infancy Gospel|Arabic Infancy Gospel]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Griffith |first=Signey |date=2008 |title=Christian Lore and the Arabic Qur'an |article-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DbtkpgGn4CEC&dq=apocrypha+qur%27an+Diatessaron&pg=PA112 |encyclopedia=The Qurʼān in its Historical Context |editor-link=Gabriel Said Reynolds |editor-first=Gabriel S. |editor-last=Reynolds |publisher=Psychology Press |page=112 |isbn=978-0-203-93960-4}}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=New Catholic Encyclopedia |title-link=New Catholic Encyclopaedia |volume=7 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=[[Catholic University of America]] |date=1967 |page=677}}</ref> One scholar has suggested that the Diatessaron, as a [[gospel harmony]], may have led to the conception that the Christian Gospel is one text.<ref>{{Cite book |first=Ibn |last=Rawandi |author-link=Ibn Rawandi |date=2002 |article=On pre-Islamic Christian strophic poetical texts in the Koran |title-link=What the Koran Really Says |title=What the Koran Really Says: Language, Text and Commentary |editor-first=Ibn |editor-last=Warraq |publisher=Prometheus |isbn=978-1-57392-945-5}}</ref>

=== Relationship with The Bible ===
{{See also|Biblical and Quranic narratives}}
[[File:Jonah and the Whale, Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles).jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Jonah]] and the giant fish in the ''[[Jami' al-tawarikh]]'', [[Metropolitan Museum]]. A common folktale{{sfn|Ziolkowski|2007|page=78}} finds its place in the {{qref|37|139|c=y}} as well as in [[book of Jonah|other sacred texts]] and can be traced in [[Oannes (mythology)|Oannes]], Indian yogi [[Matsyendranatha]], and the Greek hero [[Jason]].]]

The Quran attributes its relationship with former books (the [[Torah]] and the [[Gospel]]s) to their unique origin, saying all of them have been revealed by the one God.<ref>{{qref|2|285|b=y}}</ref>

According to [[Christoph Luxenberg]] (in ''[[The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran]]'') the Quran's language was similar to the [[Syriac language]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Luxenberg |first=Christoph |title=The Syro-Aramaic reading of the Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Koran |publisher=H. Schiler |location=Berlin |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-89930-088-8}}</ref> The Quran recounts stories of many of the people and events recounted in [[Judaism|Jewish]] and [[Christianity|Christian]] sacred books ([[Hebrew Bible|Tanakh]], [[Bible]]) and devotional literature ([[Apocrypha]], [[Midrash]]), although it differs in many details. [[Adam]], [[Enoch]], [[Noah]], [[Hud (prophet)|Eber]], [[Shelah (son of Judah)|Shelah]], [[Abraham]], [[Lot (biblical person)|Lot]], [[Ishmael]], [[Isaac]], [[Jacob]], [[Joseph (Genesis)|Joseph]], [[Job (biblical figure)|Job]], [[Jethro (biblical figure)|Jethro]], [[David]], [[Solomon]], [[Elijah]], [[Elisha]], [[Jonah]], [[Aaron]], [[Moses]], [[Zechariah (New Testament figure)|Zechariah]], [[John the Baptist]] and [[Jesus]] are mentioned in the Quran as prophets of God (see [[Prophets and messengers in Islam|Prophets of Islam]]). In fact, [[Moses in Islam|Moses]] is mentioned more in the Quran than any other individual.<ref name=Keeler>{{Cite encyclopedia |first=Annabel |last=Keeler |chapter=Moses from a Muslim Perspective |editor-last1=Solomon |editor-first1=Norman |editor-last2=Harries |editor-first2=Richard |editor-last3=Winter |editor-first3=Tim |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9A4JZ8CSJJwC&q=Moses&pg=PA55 |encyclopedia=Abraham's children: Jews, Christians and Muslims in conversation |publisher=T&T Clark |date=2005 |pages=55–66 |isbn=978-0-567-08171-1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160429081221/https://books.google.com/books?id=9A4JZ8CSJJwC&pg=PA55 |archive-date=29 April 2016}}</ref> Jesus is mentioned more often in the Quran than Muhammad (by name—Muhammad is often alluded to as "The Prophet" or "The Apostle"), while [[Mary in Islam|Mary]] is mentioned in the Quran more than in the [[New Testament]].<ref>{{Cite book |author-link=John Esposito |last=Esposito |first=John L |date=2010 |title=The Future of Islam |url=https://archive.org/details/futureofislam0000espo/page/40 |location=US |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516521-0 |page=40 |quote=Christians are often surprised to discover that Jesus is mentioned by name in the Quran more than Muhammad and that Mary is mentioned more times in the Quran than in the New Testament. Both Jesus and Mary play important roles not only in the Quran but also in Muslim piety and spirituality.}}</ref>

=== Relationship with Arab writing ===
After the Quran, and the general rise of Islam, the [[Arabic alphabet]] developed rapidly into an art form.<ref name =leaman /> The Arabic grammarian [[Sibawayh]] wrote one of the earliest books on Arabic grammar, referred to as "Al-Kitab", which relied heavily on the language in the Quran. [[Wadad Kadi]], Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at [[University of Chicago]], and Mustansir Mir, Professor of Islamic studies at [[Youngstown State University]], state that the Quran exerted a particular influence on Arabic literature's diction, themes, metaphors, motifs and symbols and added new expressions and new meanings to old, pre-Islamic words that would become ubiquitous.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last1=Kadi |first1=Wadad |author-link1=Wadad Kadi |last2=Mir |first2=Mustansir |editor-link=Jane Dammen McAuliffe |editor-last=McAuliffe |editor-first=Jane Dammen |article=Literature and the Quran |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Qurʾān |date=2002 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |isbn=90-04-12354-7 |volume=3 |pages=213, 216}}</ref>