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Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets
Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur'an
Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to explore the...
Published July 16th 2009 by Routledge