Stories of the Prophets
(قصص الأنبياء)

Name: Stories of the Prophets
Author: Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm

Title	Stories of the Prophets
Title Original	قصص الأنبياء
Author	Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm
Publication Date:	1577
Publication Place	- [publisher not identified]
Type	Book
Language	Persian
Digital	No
Manuscript	No
Physical Dimensions	1 online resource.
Library:	Library of Congress
Library Asset ID	2021667222
Record ID	22057156
Date	1577
Sample Text	Qisas al-anbiya (Stories of the prophets) by the 12th-century Persian writer Ishaq Ibn-Ibrahim al-Nishapuri contains the history of the prophets up to Muhammad, recounted on the basis of the Qur'anic narration. It includes stories drawn from the biblical traditions of the Old Testament as well as material on the pre-Islamic prophets of the Arabian Peninsula. This splendid and richly illuminated manuscript containing 22 miniatures was copied in Shiraz (in present-day Iran) in 1577, at the time a center of the arts in Safavid Persia. The manuscript once belonged to the collection of the German diplomat and orientalist Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751--1817) and is now in the Berlin State Library--Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
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Stories of the Prophets

(قصص الأنبياء)

Author Nīšāpūrī, Isḥāq Ibn-Ibrāhīm

Publication Date 1577

Publication Place - [publisher not identified]

Type Book

Language Persian

Digital No

Manuscript No

Physical Dimensions 1 online resource.

Library Library of Congress

Library Asset ID 2021667222

Record ID 22057156

Date 1577

Sample Text Qisas al-anbiya (Stories of the prophets) by the 12th-century Persian writer Ishaq Ibn-Ibrahim al-Nishapuri contains the history of the prophets up to Muhammad, recounted on the basis of the Qur'anic narration. It includes stories drawn from the biblical traditions of the Old Testament as well as material on the pre-Islamic prophets of the Arabian Peninsula. This splendid and richly illuminated manuscript containing 22 miniatures was copied in Shiraz (in present-day Iran) in 1577, at the time a center of the arts in Safavid Persia. The manuscript once belonged to the collection of the German diplomat and orientalist Heinrich Friedrich von Diez (1751--1817) and is now in the Berlin State Library--Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.

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