Bucaille, Maurice

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Name (Latin)
Bucaille, Maurice
Name (Arabic)
بوكاى، موريس
Other forms of name
Bikaj, Moris
Bi︠u︡kaĭ, Moris
Bucaille, Maurice Henri Jules
Būkāy, Mūrīs
Būkāy, Duktur (Mūrīs)
Date of birth
1920
Field of activity
theological writer
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 17219957
Wikidata: Q559926
Library of congress: n 82104198
Sources of Information
  • Biblii︠a︡ta, koranŭt i naukata, 1994:t.p. (Moris Bi︠u︡kaĭ)
  • Biblijata, Kuranot i naukata, 2001:title page (Moris Bikaj)
  • His La Bible, le Coran et la science, c1976.
  • His Muqāyisahʹī miyān-i Tawrāt, Injīl, Qurʼān va ʻilm, 1985:t.p. (Duktur Būkāy) p. 1 (Mūrīs Būkāy)
  • Moïse et Pharaon, c1995:t.p. (Maurice Bucaille) p. [iii] (b. 1920)
  • What is the origin of man?, 1989:title page (Dr Maurice Bucaille) page 4 of cover (medical practitioner who has closely studied the Scripture of the monotheistic religions; at age 50 he learned Arabic in order to understand thoroughly the original text of the Qur'an; for over 40 years, he has gathered information from many disciplines, especially moderngenetics and molecular biology; to this synthesis Doctor Bucaille has added the teachings of the Holy Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam; his purpose has been to compare Scriptural teachings with scientific facts, and thereafter to match scientific data with the general ideas that arise from study of the Scriptures)
  • Wikipedia, March 2, 2025(Maurice Bucaille; birth name: Maurice Henri Jules Bucaille; born 19 July 1920, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, France; died 17 February 1998 (aged 77), Paris, France; French doctor, specialist in gastroenterology, who in 1973 was appointed as the family physician of Faisal of Saudi Arabia; his patients included members of the family of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; in 1976 he published The Bible, the Qur'an and Science, after studying the mummy of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II; in that book he concluded that the Qur'an is a divine relevation, not written by any man; this gave rise to a movement called Bucailleism, which tries to relate modern science with religion, especially Islam)
  • ספר: القرآن الكريم والتوراة والانجيل والعلم, [١٩٧٩].