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*https://web.archive.org/web/20080112001936/http://www.msgr.ca/msgr-2/Koran%20-%20Nativity%20-%2002.htm *https://web.archive.org/web/20070929155310/http://www.quran.org.uk/articles/ieb_quran_in_the_west.htm * Achim Rohde: ''A Hamburg Koran and the Downgrading of the Hebraic in the Christian Theology of the 17th Century]''. In: Key Documents of German-Jewish History, October 21, 2018. 1652 births 1695 deaths People from Döbeln 17th-century German Protestant theologians People from the Electorate of Saxony Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni German scholars German male non-fiction writers 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers {{Islam-bio-stub