For its sheer readability, the Qur’anic story of Joseph, told in S. 12, is perhaps unsurpassed in the whole of the Qur’in. The less than one hundred verses of the narrative1 telescope many years, present an amazing variety o f scenes and characters in a tightly-knit plot, and offer a dramatic illustration of some of the fundamental themes of the Qur’in. The present article, as the title indicat...