:Maurice Bucaille

{{Short description|French scientist, physician and author (1920–1998)}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Maurice Bucaille

| image = Maurice Bucaille.jpg

| birth_name = Maurice Henri Jules Bucaille

| birth_date = {{birth-date|19 July 1920}}

| birth_place = Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, France

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1998|2|17|1920|07|19}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| occupation = {{hlist|Physician|scientist|author}}

| known_for =

| notable_works = Mummies of the Pharaohs – Modern Medical Investigations and The Bible, The Qur'an and Science

| spouse = {{bulleted list|{{marriage |Jaqueline Florisse Henriette Legrand |1943|1948|end=div}}|{{marriage |Ginette Bucaille |1949|1955|end=div}}|{{marriage |Jeannine Mathilde Monnot |1958}}}}

| awards = {{bulleted list|History Prize from the Académie Française|French National Academy of Medicine Award{{Cite web|title=Maurice Bucaille|url=https://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1898.html|access-date=2021-10-03|website=whonamedit.com}}}}

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Maurice Bucaille ({{IPA|fr|moris bykaj}}; 19 July 1920 – 17 February 1998{{cite web|url=http://d-nb.info/gnd/114029164|title=DNB, Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek|work=Katalog derDeutschen Nationalbibliothek}}) was a French doctor known primarily for his book The Bible, The Qur'an and Science.

Career

Maurice Bucaille was a specialist in the field of gastroenterology.{{Cite web |title=Maurice Bucaille |url=http://www.bucaillelegacy.com/Maurice%20Bucaille.html |access-date=2021-10-04 |website=bucaillelegacy.com}} (obituary) In 1973, he was appointed as the family physician of Faisal of Saudi Arabia.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-01 |title=The story of Maurice Bucaille's inspiring conversion to Islam |url=https://www.arabnews.com/news/443500 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719065104/https://www.arabnews.com/news/443500|archive-date=2021-07-19|access-date=2021-03-24 |website=Arab News|language=en}} His patients included the members of the family of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE7DA173BF930A35751C0A967958260 |title=All wrapped up in his work |first=Malcolm W. |last=Browne | work=The New York Times |date=3 February 1991}} (review of Mummies of the Pharaohs: Modern Medical Investigations)

In 1976, Bucaille published a book titled The Bible, The Qur'an and Science following his study of the mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II.{{cite book |editor1-last=Harding |editor1-first=Sandra |title=The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader |date=2011 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=9780822349570 |page=375}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Stenberg |editor1-first=Leif |editor2-last=Wood |editor2-first=Philip |title=What Is Islamic Studies?: European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field |date=2023 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=9781399500012 |pages=137–138}} The book contained multiple references to the Quran, relating science and Quran in which Bucaille concluded that the Quran is a divine revelation and that it was not written by any man. The book gave rise to a movement called Bucailleism, which tries to relate modern science with religion, especially Islam.{{cite book|title=Encyclopaedia of the history of science, technology, and medicine in non-western cultures|year=2008|editor=Helaine Selin|editor-link=Helaine Selin|page=456|chapter=Islamic Science, the contemporary debate|bibcode=2008ehst.book.....S|oclc=900685916}} Since the publishing of The Bible, the Quran and Science, Bucaillists have promoted the idea that the Quran is of divine origin, arguing that it contains scientifically and historically correct facts.[https://books.google.com/books?id=uLjaAAAAMAAJ&q=bucaillism Explorations in Islamic science] Ziauddin Sardar, (1989), retrieved 28 March 2011{{cite book |author=Taner Edis |author-link=Taner Edis |title=An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam |date=2007 |publisher=Prometheus Books |isbn=9781591024491 |pages=94–100}} According to The Wall Street Journal, Bucailleism is "in some ways the Muslim counterpart to Christian creationism" and although "while creationism rejects much of modern science, Bucailleism embraces it."{{cite news|author=Daniel Golden|date=23 January 2002|title=Strange Bedfellows: Western Scholars Play Key Role in Touting 'Science' of the Quran|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1011738146332966760}}

Publications

La Bible, le Coran et la Science : Les Écritures Saintes examinées à la lumière des connaissances modernes, Seghers 1976, ({{ISBN|978-2221501535}}), Pocket 2003, ({{ISBN|978-2266131032}})
Les Momies des pharaons et la médecine, Séguier, 1987 ({{ISBN|2906284475}}). Mummies of the Pharaohs: Modern Medical Investigations by Maurice Bucaille. Translated by Alastair D. Pannell and the author. Illustrated. 236 pp. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Réflexions sur le Coran, with Mohamed Talbi, Seghers, (Reflections on the Koran), 1989 ({{ISBN|2232101487}}).
L'homme d'où vient-il? Les réponses de la science et des Écritures Saintes (Where does man come from? The responses of science and Scripture), Seghers, 1980 7ème éd.({{ISBN|2221007816}}).
{{cite book | last = Bucaille | first = Maurice | title = What is the origin of man? : the answers of science and the Holy Scriptures | publisher = Seghers | location = Paris | year = 1982 | isbn = 9782221011010 }}
Moïse et Pharaon ; Les Hébreux en Egypte ; (Moses and Pharaoh, The Hebrews in Egypt) Quelles concordances de Livres saints avec l'Histoire, Seghers, 1995 ({{ISBN|2-232-10466-4}}).