Qisas Al-Anbiya

Qisas al - Anbiya ʾ (Arabic: قصص الأنبياء, Qisas al - Anbiya DMG ʾ, prophets narratives ' ) is a genus of books in Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages, where from an Islamic perspective stories about the pre-Islamic prophets are presented. The material is usually arranged in chronological order, so that, resulting from the creation of the world until the appearance of the Prophet Mohammed reaching, the image of a closed- Islamic past. Content overlaps arise with the Islamic world chronicles, in which the same material is commonly found in the introductory parts of the pre-Islamic period, as well as with traditional Koranic commentary that draw on these stories in the treatment of narrative passages of the Koran.

Arab Qisas al - Anbiya - ʾ - works

The first work in this genre is the book about the " beginning of creation and the prophets stories " ( Bad ʾ al - Khalq wa - Qisas al - Anbiya ʾ ) of the Egyptian scholar Abū Rifā ʿ a ʿ Umara ibn Wathīma al - Farisi (d. 902), of which, however, only a single signature is obtained, which contains only the second part of the work. This manuscript is preserved in the Vatican Library, and has been edited in 1978 by RG Khoury. The author comes from a Persian family that had immigrated to Egypt, and has put together in his work material that his father had Wathīma, who was himself the author of a work on the Ridda wars, collected from different sources. All the stories are introduced by chains of narration. For these chains of narration is apparent that a substantial proportion of the material on the South Arabian narrator Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. 732) is declining. The text handwritten obtained begins with the story of al - Khidr and ends with the Prophet Mohammed.

The second Arab - Qisas al - Anbiya - work comes from the pen of acting in Nishapur Koranexegeten Abū Aḥmad Ishaq ath - Tha ʿ labi (d. 1036 ). In contrast to al - Fārisīs work of this book in the East has gained great popularity and has been printed early. It is important that the author not only treated the prophets in his work, but also those people in the pre-Islamic period, have distinguished themselves by piety and faithfulness. Therefore Heribert buses are the expression Qisas Al- Anbiya in the title of the work in its German translation with " tales of the prophets and friends of God " again. In Arabic, the book also has the jewelry title ʿ ara ʾ is al - madschālis ( "The most beautiful teaching sessions "), which refers to the fact that the book is divided into 30 " training session " ( Majlis ) titled chapter. These chapters are mostly bāb called into sections divided. The book begins with the story of creation and then treated successively Fall, the Flood, the patriarchs, the Exodus from Egypt, the Israelites in the Holy Land, John the Baptist and Jesus and finally different early Christian legends as that of the Seven Sleepers and the Saint George. As with al - Farisi also the individual stories are introduced with Überliefererketten.

Later, the Andalusian scholar Ibn Muṭarrif aṭ - Ṭarafī (d. 1062) and al - Kisa, a certain ʾ ī known (around 1200) Arabic Qisas al - Anbiya - authored works.

The Shiite tradition knows Qisas al- Anbiya own works.

Persian and Turkish Qisas al - Anbiya - ʾ - works

As the oldest surviving work of the genre in Persian is considered that of Abu Ishaq Ibn Khalaf Neysāburi, which dates from the 11th century. His text was edited in 1961 by Habib Yaghmai basis of two manuscripts. The work has also been frequently illustrated (see figure ); Rachel Milstein, Karin Rührdanz and Barbara Schmitz presented a number of illustrated manuscripts Neysāburi in a joint publication in 1999. The content of the work is very similar to that in the 10th century -built by Persian Bal'ami processing of al-Tabari 's Chronicle. All the stories are primarily of preaching and edification and, unlike most Arab Qisas al - Anbiya - plants, not initiated with Überliefererketten. However, the author mentions in the introduction to his work a number of educational authorities who join him in the manner of isnad with the famous companions of the Prophet and ʿ Abd Allāh ibn traditionist ʿ Abbās.

In the 14th century, wrote a certain Nasir ad -Din Rabghūzī, is the not much more is known than that he was a judge in Central Asia and had good relations with the prevailing layer of the Mongols, a Qisas al - Anbiya - plant in medium Turkish. This is largely a translation of the Persian work of Neysāburi dar.