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Trump’s Sanctions against Iran Clear Breach of Intl. Law: UN Envoy

Gholamali Khoshroo said in a commentary published by the Guardian on Wed. that US is making history not just by violating a UN Security Council resolution it voted for three years ago, but also by penalizing countries who stick to the same unanimous resolution.

The Qur'an Story of Joseph: Plot, Themes, and Characters

For its sheer readability, the Qur'anic story of Joseph, told in S. 12, is perhaps unsurpassed in the whole of the Qur'an. The less than one hundred verses of the narrative [1] telescope many years, present an amazing variety of scenes and characters in a tightly-knit plot, and offer a dramatic illustration of some of the fundamental themes of the Qur'an. The present article, as the title indicates, is a study of selected aspects of the sura. The study is mainly literary in character. As such it will not deal with that part of the sura (the concluding part, chiefly) in which the Qur'an seeks to apply the story to the Meccan situation of Muhammad's time.[2] I have thus limited the scope of this inquiry in order to bring into relief, with reference to S. 12, a sorely neglected aspect of the Qur'an, namely, the literary aspect. It is not necessary to reproduce the story in detail or in outline any of the well-known translations of the Qur'an can be used for purposes of reference.

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