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This dissertation attempts to combine studies in narratology and Islamic history in a sustained study of a small section of Abu Ja`far Muh[dotbelow]ammad b. Jarir al-T[dotbelow]abari's Tarikh al-Rusul wa al-Muluk.

The story of Abraham, as understood by Christians and Muslims, has always had a formative influence on the central theological dicta of Christianity and Islam. In theologies that perceive class struggle and oppression of the poor as issues distinctly within the purview of religi…