Miracle of Iron in the Qur'an: EXPLAINED

A few links to purely educational sites (nothing "anti-Islamic") concerned with the history of meteorites, metallurgy and mineralogy and the use of weapons made from meteoric iron by ancient civilizations.

History of mineralogy:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7V...

History of meteoric iron's use in weaponry:

http://www.3rd1000.com/history/ancien...

Meteorites in history:

http://www.meteorite.fr/en/basics/his...

History of iron metallurgy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_...

Historical sources of iron:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n9...

Brief history of the "Sacred Black Stone":

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary...

Wiki entry concerning the widespread worship of "baetylus":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus