Maurice Bucaille

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Maurice Bucaille (born July 19, 1920 in Pont-l'Évêque ; † February 17, 1998 ) was a French doctor specializing in gastroenterology and private scholar . At times he was the personal physician of the family of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and the family of the Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat .

In 1976 Bucaille published the controversial work La Bible, le Coran et la science (Eng. Bible, Koran and Science ), in which he presented his views on the Judeo-Christian revelation and the Koran . The book has been translated into 17 languages, including German and English. It founded the popular school of "Bucaillism" in the Islamic world, according to which the Koran should contain around 1200 passages of text that anticipate the knowledge of modern science. The thesis is rejected by western secular scientists. According to various sources, Bucaille converted to Islam after the book was published, which he is said to have denied himself.

Bucailles book Les momies the Pharaons et la médecine in 1988 at the Académie Française awarded Diane Potier Boès Prize awarded a silver medal.

Some statements in his book Moses and Pharaoh are criticized by Egyptologists. Erhart Graefe of the Westphalian Wilhelms University describes Bucailles' assertion that one can infer the divine origin of the Koran from finding the name " Haman " in Egyptian hieroglyphics as "noisy nonsense".

literature

  • La Bible, le Coran et la science . Seghers, Paris 1976. German edition: Bible, Quran and Science . 2nd, revised edition. SKD Bavaria Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-926575-91-3
  • L'Homme, d'où vient-il? Seghers, Paris 1981
  • Les Momies des pharaons et la médecine . Séguier, Paris 1987
  • Réflexions sur le Coran (with Prof. Mohamed Talbi ). Seghers, Paris 1989
  • Moïse et Pharaon . Seghers, Paris 1995
  • Moïse et l'Exode . Confluent éd., Paris 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Times: "All Wrapped Up in His Work" (February 3, 1991)
  2. ↑ Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures (Dordrecht 1977, Helaine Selin, ed.) Pp. 455 ff.
  3. ↑ Islamic Research Foundation International: Qur'an and Science: All Things In Pair "
  4. ↑ Richard Carrier: Cosmology and the Koran: A Response to Muslim Fundamentalists (2001)
  5. ↑ Answering-Islam.org: Is Dr. Maurice Bucaille a Muslim?
  6. ↑ Raoul Keller: No evidence of divine revelation of the Koran in Egyptian inscriptions. (pdf) ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 2. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.islaminstitut.de
personal data
SURNAME Bucaille, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukāy, Mūris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon, scientist, scholar, member of the French Society of Egyptology
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-l'Évêque
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1998