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Interpreting al-Tha'labī's Tales of the prophets : temptation, responsibility and loss /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klar, Marianna, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
Series:Routledge studies in the Qurʼān ; 9.
Subjects:
Thaʻlabī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, > -1035. > ʻArāʼis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʼ.
Prophets, Pre-Islamic.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Sources and figures
  • Texts
  • Patterns and methodology
  • Job the afflicted. Narratives
  • Crime and punishment: Job's intrinsic arrogance
  • Oedipus: Job's relationship with God
  • Order and chaos: Job as sacred executioner
  • Conclusions
  • King Saul. Narratives
  • Crime and punishment: Saul runs amok-- Oedipus: Saul as father
  • Order and chaos: Saul, a victim of circumstance?
  • Conclusions
  • David. Narratives
  • Crime and punishment: David and the glance
  • David: from Oedipus to Laius
  • Order and chaos: David as aspirer to the golden mean
  • Conclusions
  • Noah. Narratives
  • Crime and punishment: Noah's contentiousness
  • Oedipus: Noah, Canaan and Ham
  • Order and chaos: Noah's uncomfortable utopia
  • Conclusions.