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Author Thaʻlabī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, -1035.

Title ʻArāʻis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā, or : Lives of the prophets / as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Thaʻlabī ; translated and annotated by William M. Brinner
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 772 pages)
Series Studies in Arabic literature, 0169-9903 ; v. 24
Studies in Arabic literature ; v. 24. 0169-9903
Contents Preface; Introduction; Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; Harut and Marut; Noah; Hud; Salih; Abraham; Lot; Joseph; Moses, son of Manasseh; Iram of the Pillars; The People of al-Rass; Job; Dhu l-Kifl; Shu'ayb; Moses; Korah; Al-Khidr; Moses; Ezekiel; Elijah; Elisha; Dhu l-Kifl (II); Eli and Samuel; Saul; David; David and Solomon; Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, and Ezra; Ezra; Luqman the Wise; Buluqiya; Dhu l-Qarnayn; Zachariah, John, Mary and Jesus; Jonah, son of Amittai; The People of the Cave (The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus); The Story of Jirjis (Saint George)
Summary These 11th-century tales have been read and studied through the years. This work is a translation of the Arabic text into English, from the story of the creation of the world to the time just before the coming of the Prophet Muhammad and the revelation of Islam
Analysis Lives of the prophets Islam
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 745-750) and indexes
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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SUBJECT Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ gnd
Subject Prophets, Pre-Islamic -- Early works to 1800
RELIGION -- Islam -- Theology.
Prophets, Pre-Islamic.
Arabisch
Islamische Literatur
Legende
Literatur
Prophet
Profeten.
Islam.
Arabisch.
Genre/Form Early works.
Quelle.
Quelle.
Form Electronic book
Author Brinner, William M.
ISBN 1417590793
9781417590797
9004125892
9789004125896
9047401565
9789047401568
1280466804
9781280466809
9786610466801
6610466807
Other Titles ʻArāʼis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ. English
Lives of the prophets