The story of how he built the Ark and filled it with two of every species to save the righteous from the Deluge ( tufan) is very popular and has received much embellishment in tradition. In Islam, Noah is considered to be a rasul ("messenger"), although he does not have a revealed book. Anyway, that should have read (now without accents!):įrom Cyril Glasse's Concise Encyclopedia of Islam (far from a neutral reference work - Glasse is a disciple of the loony Rene Guenon, a proponent of "universal religion" - but very useful for things like this): Noah (Ar. What happened to my accents? They looked fine on preview, dammit.
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