The Qisas al-'Anbiya' (Arabic: ) or Stories of the Prophets is any of various collections of stories adapted from the Quran and other Islamic literature, closely related to exegesis of the Qur'an. One of the best-known is a work composed by the Persian author Abū Ishaq Ibrāhīm bin Mansur bin Khalaf of Neyshābūr (A city located in Khorasan, Northeast Iran) the 12th century (AH 5th century); the other one was composed by Muhammad al-Kisai in the 13th century (AH 6th century); others include the Ara'is al-Majalis by al-Tha'alabi (d. 1035, AH 427) and the Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (d. 1372, AH 774).

свернуть