{"id":88533,"date":"2024-08-06T18:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T23:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=88533"},"modified":"2025-10-09T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:59:03","slug":"people-mentioned-in-the-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/06\/people-mentioned-in-the-quran\/","title":{"rendered":"People mentioned in the Qur&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/post\/Ugkx4OdPO0KFcowt4ygrS6eF-BwE1BHbsNWZ\">Sentinel Apologetics<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Quran makes mention of 32 people, and all of them are defined as &#8220;prophets&#8221; without distinguishing between them. Among these names there are only 6 people that can NOT be clearly identified in the Bible. Nevertheless, the remaining 26 people come mostly from the Pentateuch. Thus, here&#8217;s a list statistically aligned from most referred in the Quran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jesus (130 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Moses (130 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Abraham (69 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mary (11 times by name and 34 times as &#8220;mother&#8221; of Jesus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Noah (43 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adam (25 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lot (25 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aaron (20 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Isaac (17 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Solomon (17 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David (16 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacob (16 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ishmael (12 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonah (4 times; the Arabic form Y\u016bnus is taken from the LXX form I\u014dnas rather than the Hebrew Y\u014dn\u0101h)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Job (4 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elijah (2 times)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elisha (1 time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saul (1 time; Surah 2:247-249 is erroneously fused with Gideon&#8217;s story from Judges 7:4-7)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joseph (mentioned only as the name for Surah 12)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>John the Baptist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zechariah. &#8211; Shu\u2018ayb (Jethro)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Idris (Enoch)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>H\u016bd (Eber)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dh\u016b \u2019l-Kifl (Ezekiel)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Luqm\u0101n (a figure whose origin is in Nubia, Sudan, or Ethiopia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u1e62\u0101li\u1e25 (believed to have prophesied to the Arabian tribe of Tham\u016bd)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Al-Khadir (one of the cave dwellers in Surah 18)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dh\u016b \u2019l -Qarnayn (Alexander the Great).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sentinel Apologetics&#8230; The Quran makes mention of 32 people, and all of them are defined as &#8220;prophets&#8221; without distinguishing between them. Among these names there are only 6 people that can NOT be clearly identified in the Bible. Nevertheless, the remaining 26 people come mostly from the Pentateuch. Thus, here&#8217;s a list statistically aligned from most referred in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,29],"class_list":["post-88533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88534,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88533\/revisions\/88534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}