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(fl. early 12th cent.), Sunni scholar, mystic and author of a monumental Persian Sufi commentary on the Qurʾān. MEYBODI, Abu’l-Fażl Rašid-al-Din ( fl. early 12th century), Sunni scholar, mystic and author of the Kašf al-asrār wa ʿoddat al-abrār (Unveiling of mysteries and provision of the righteous), a monumental Persian Sufi commentary on the Qurʾān. His full name is variously given in two manuscripts of Kašf al-asrār as Abu’l-Fażl b. Aḥmad b. Abi Saʿd b. Aḥmad b. Mehrizad Meybodi, and Rašid-al-Din Abu’l-Fażl Aḥmad b. Abi Saʿd b. Moḥammad b. Aḥmad Mehrizad (…

(Ar. Yusof), son of the biblical patriarch Jacob. The story of Joseph has always been a source of attractive subject matters for the exegetists of the Qurʾān, poets, miniaturists, and popular tales. A version of this article is available in print Volume XV, Fascicle 1, pp. 30-44 JOSEPH (Yusof). The story of Joseph is described in the Qurʾān (12.3) as the most beautiful of stories ( aḥsan al-qeṣaṣ). As a graphic romance of love and adversity, of an innocent boy of incomparable beauty sold into slavery by his own brothers, his rise as a young righteous young man …