{"collection":"Texts of Islam","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_012_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_isl_012_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_isl_012_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/012.htm","summary":"This is an English translation of Surah Yusuf (Chapter 12) from the Quran, one of Islam's sacred scripture's longest sustained narrative passages, presented here in a 19th-century orientalist register. It retells the biblical story of Joseph \u2014 his brothers' jealousy and betrayal, his enslavement in Egypt, his rejection of Potiphar's wife's advances, his imprisonment, his interpretation of dreams, and his eventual rise to oversee Egypt's treasury \u2014 framed as divine revelation delivered to Muhammad. The Quran's distinctive handling of the story emphasizes God's continuous providential guidance at each turn: Joseph's suffering is not accident but divine orchestration, and his virtue (chastity, truthfulness, patience) is presented as the mechanism through which God's favor operates. A notable theological claim woven throughout is that Joseph's story is offered explicitly as a \"best of stories\" and a set of \"signs\" \u2014 meaning the narrative itself is intended as proof of prophetic revelation, since Muhammad (described as previously \"heedless\" of this history) could only know it through divine inspiration. The text also distinguishes itself from the Genesis account by including scenes not in the Bible, most strikingly the banquet where Egyptian noblewomen, upon seeing Joseph, cut their own hands in stunned admiration and declare him \"no mortal, but an honourable angel.\" The excerpt breaks off mid-sentence during the goblet-in-the-sack episode, so the resolution of Joseph's reunion with his father Jacob is not included.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"012","tradition":"Texts of Islam","translated_text":null,"word_count":3423}