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Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to have developed in ...
Potiphar's wife, as well as Potiphar himself, are not explicitly named in the Quran, though it alludes to a governor (Arabic: العزيز al-azīz) and his wife. The book narrates her treatment of Yusuf as follows: And she, in whose house he was, sought to seduce him. She closed the doors and said, "Come to me!" He (Joseph) responded, "God forbid!
Yusuf (Arabic: يوسف ٱبن يعقوب ٱبن إسحاق ٱبن إبراهيم, romanized: Yūsuf ibn Yaʿqūb ibn ʾIs-ḥāq ibn ʾIbrāhīm, lit. ' Joseph, son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham ') is a prophet and messenger of God mentioned in the Qur'an [1]: 34 and corresponds to Joseph, a person from the Hebrew and Christian Bible who was said to have lived in Egypt before the New ...
A miniature Mughal painting depicting the tale of Yusuf and Zulaikha. Yusuf-Zulekha (Bengali: ইউসুফ-জুলেখা) is a 15th-century Bengali romantic story in verse written by Shah Muhammad Sagir, which is considered one of the greatest literary works of medieval "golden era" of Bengali literature; when Sagir was a court-poet of the Sultan of Bengal, Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
There is a Persian poem called Yusuf and Zulaikha in Jami's Haft Awrang ("Seven thrones") In The Divine Comedy, Dante sees the shade of Potiphar's wife in the eighth circle of Hell. She does not speak, but Dante is told by another spirit that, along with other perjurers, she is condemned to suffer a burning fever for all eternity.
Yusuf and Zulaikha (Joseph chased by Potiphar's wife), Persian miniature by Behzād, 1488. 1–3 Muhammad is acquainted by inspiration with the history of Joseph 4 Joseph tells his father of his vision of eleven stars and the sun and the moon bowing down to him 5 Jacob warns Joseph against the jealousy of his brethren
In Jewish tradition, Potiphar's wife tries to seduce her slave, Joseph, falsely accuses him of attempted rape, and has him imprisoned when he resists her sexual advances.In later Islamic poetic tradition, Zuleika has dreamed of a beautiful man since she was a young girl and falls passionately in love with the young man, who is called Yusuf in the Quran, when he is brought to her household as a ...