Keith L. Moore

Keith L. Moore is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy (department of surgery), former Chair of anatomy and associate dean for Basic Medical Sciences (Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has also worked at the King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is most known for his textbooks on the subjects of anatomy and human embryology.

He has co-written (with professor Arthur F. Dalley II) Clinically Oriented Anatomy, which is the most popular English-language anatomy textbook in the world, used by scientists, doctors, physiotherapists and students worldwide. The book is especially popular because of its 'blue boxes' - passages of text on blue background that relate the classical anatomy to real-world concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of human patients. The book now exists in multiple versions - one with American English spelling and one with British English spelling, and also a shorter version that is more suitable as a reference or revision guide.

Embryology and the Qur'an
Moore has written on "references to embryology in the Qur'an", for instance, in an article for The Journal of the Islamic Medical Association, Vol. 18, Jan-June 1986, pp. 15-16.

During a conference in Cairo, Keith Moore said: ''It has been a great pleasure for me to help clarify statements in the Qur'ân about human development. It is clear to me that these statements must have come to Muhammad from God, or Allah, because most of this knowledge was not discovered until many centuries later. This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God, or Allah.''

The article has been widely republished on the Internet by several Islamic-oriented websites, such as here: Moore is frequently quoted by Islamic-oriented websites seeking to validate the divinity of the Qur'an: and by websites seeking to refute it's divinity, or which take a more neutral stance:
 * http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/2005/16-31Jan05-Print-Edition/163101200569.htm
 * The Quran on Human Embryonic Development
 * Embryology
 * Scientific errors and the myth of embryology in the Koran
 * Embryology in the Qur'an

Books
''Clinically Oriented Antomy (2006; fifth edition). US: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0-7817-3639-0. ''