Jacob, some four hundred years after the composition of the Quran. HaimSchwarzbaum [de] argued as early as in 1960 that the story appeared to be "utterly
Arabic), though which Theophilus he refers to is unclear. While scholar HaimSchwarzbaum [de] writes that the story has a Muslim origin, this is also unclear
Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192839107. Helfer 2009, pp. 31–42. HaimSchwarzbaum, Studies in Jewish and World Folklore, Walter de Gruyter, 2015 p. 65
appeared in The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. Scholar HaimSchwarzbaum argues in his Studies in Jewish and World Folklore that the tale bears