A comparative study of Stories in the Quran and the Testaments ‎

Abstract

The religion of Islam and the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity, ‎each of them have a sacred book which is the basis of faith of the followers of ‎these religions. Words are the messengers of meanings and they like the holy ‎prophets are dependent on their environment, traditions, customs and their fields ‎of duty in this messaging. Collection of words and phrases that chase a specific ‎purpose and illustrate some particular events in the past or explain an occasion ‎are called a story or storytelling. Storytelling and its creation have roots in ‎innovation, thriving and genesis of human being, his primary community and ‎very initial traditions. The art of storytelling has also been recognized by Islam ‎and is significantly exercised nearly in all divine books especially the Holy Quran. ‎So, Quranic tales have abundant commonalities with the Old Testament, ‎especially in the stories of Prophets, but the pattern of narration of Holy Quran is ‎different from the Bible.‎