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An Unknown Arabic Poem on Joseph and his Brethren1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

R. Y. Ebied  and
M. J. L. Young
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Extract

The purpose of this paper is to draw the attention of scholars to the existence of a hitherto unknown Arabic poem concerned with the subject of Joseph and his brethren, which was discovered in 1972 in an uncatalogued manuscript in the possession of the Department of Semitic Studies of the University of Leeds.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 106 , Issue 1 , January 1974 , pp. 2 - 7
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1974

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References

2 Sūrah XII, 3.

3 Quoted by Serres, V., ‘L'histoire de Joseph selon la tradition musulmane par J. Spiro’ in Revue Tunisienne, 1907, 420.Google Scholar

4 ibid., 421.

5 Lausanne, 1906.

6 Catalogue of Oriental manuscripts, Vols. I–VI [Nos. 1–300], Leeds, 1958–62.

7 al-Qism al-thāni (sh—l), Cairo, 1962, 206.

8 Sūrah XII, 4.

9 ibid., 5.

10 folio 3ro.

11 cf. Flügel, G., Nujūm al-furqān fī aṭrāf al-Qur'ān, Leipzig, 1842, 142.Google Scholar

12 folio 11ro; see Bayḑāwī's comment on Sūrah XII, 19.

13 folios 2ro–2vo.

14 For a discussion of the Biblical parallels to the Qur'ānic Joseph, see Macdonald, J., “Joseph in the Qur'ān and Muslim commentary” in MW, XLVI, 1956, 113–131, 207–24.Google Scholar