Peter the Venerable catalogued Qur’anic figures he traced to Scripture

Evidence

Peter the Venerable, for example, would always be deeply aware of those Qur’anic truths which were ‘as if extracted’ from Scripture: the patriarchs, Noe, Abraham and Lot, the Pharaoh, David and others; from the Gospel, ‘Zacharias, Elizabeth, John, son of Zacharias, Jesus or Christ, son of Mary, Gabriel speaking to Zacharias or to Mary, the rise of John, the birth of Christ from the Virgin, and some other things’. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 911