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He
is the author of a best-seller, "The Bible, The Qur'ân and
Science" (1976). His classical studies of the scriptural languages,
including Arabic, in association with his knowledge of hieroglyphics, have
allowed him to hold a multidisciplinary inquiry, in which his personal
contribution as a medical doctor has produced conclusive arguments. His
work, "Mummies of the Pharaohs - Modern Medical
Investigations" (St. Martins Press, 1990), won a History Prize
from the Académie Française and another prize from the French National
Academy of Medicine.
His other works include: "What is the Origin of Man" (Seghers,
1988), "Moses and Pharaoh, the Hebrews in Egypt", (NTT
Mediascope Inc, 1994); and "Réflexions sur le Coran"
(Mohamed Talbi & Maurice Bucaille, Seghers, 1989).
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 After a
study which lasted ten years, Dr. Maurice Bucaille addressed the French
Academy of Medicine in 1976 concerning the existence in the Qur'ân of certain
statements concerning physiology and reproduction. His reason for doing that
was that :
"...our knowledge of these disciplines is such, that it is impossible to
explain how a text produced at the time of the Qur'ân could have contained
ideas that have only been discovered in modern times."
"The above observation makes the hypothesis advanced by those who see Muhammad
as the author of the Qur'ân untenable. How could a man, from being
illiterate, become the most important author, in terms of literary merits, in
the whole of Arabic literature?
How could he then pronounce truths of a scientific nature that no other
human-being could possibly have developed at that time, and all this without
once making the slightest error in his pronouncement on the subject?".
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