This book is a new stage of my reflections on the Quran and historical subjects found therein. "Historical" is used above in the same sense as in Rembrandt"s day to a genre of Dutch painting: to include all stories about the past, primarily those pertaining to holy history. It all started with a hundred of my articles in the famous Myths of the Peoples of the World encyclopedia. The book brought to your attention today contains г most everything that has been written before, with new sides and aspects brought into play. One of them deals with visual imagery. This book is intended for non-Muslims. Muslims have their own characteristic emotions arising from their own spiritual experience. They do not need any analysis for practising their religion. The analysis offered below is based on a universally acknowledged scholarly approach employed by us in order to understand a minor, yet important part of the Quranic message in the context of the other cultures surrounding Islam...