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یوسف و زلیخا / Yusuf and Zulaykha (masnavi within Jami's Haft Awrang)

یوسف و زلیخا / Yusuf and Zulaykha

Yusuf and Zulaykha is one of the seven narrative masnavis that together make up Jami's Haft Awrang (the Seven Thrones). This single long poem retells the Qur'anic and Biblical story of the prophet Joseph and his love with Zulaykha, unfolding across numbered sections (بخش) that carry the tale from Joseph's childhood and his brothers' envy, through his casting into the well and sale into Egypt, to his trials in Zulaykha's house and eventual rise.

The individual numbered sections (for example Sections 29 through 33 on the brothers' envy and plot, and Section 53 in the Zulaykha episode) are constituent parts of this one masnavi, not of the Haft Awrang collection as a whole. This node supplies the missing literary container between the collection and its sections.

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