This is a sub-article to Joseph . For the singer see Yusuf Islam.
'Yusuf (circa 1610 BC - 1500 BC?)http://www.thetruthoflife.org/messengers_jacob.htm http://www.zainab.org/commonpages/ebooks/english/short/prophets.htm, (Arabic: ????, also Yousef, Yousuf, Youssef, Yussef, Yusef, Yossef, Yousov, Yousif or Yosef), is a prophet in the Qur'an, the holy scriptures of Islam. The figure corresponds to the character from the Jewish texts and the Christian Bible as Joseph and is the Arabic variant of that name.Although the narratives of other prophets are mentioned in various suras, the complete narrative of Joseph is given just in one surah, Sura Yusuf. However, it is said to be the most detailed narrative in the Qur'an, and bears some differences from the Biblical counterpart.
The Story of Yusuf (Joseph), as told by Qur'anic verses
Qur'an depicts this story as the most beautiful of stories narrated in the Qur'an ().The story of Joseph moves in a stream from beginning to end; its substance
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef