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Stories of the Prophets, Qisas Al-Anbiya, is one of the books that attracted much attention from Muslim communities in the last thousand years. This book had been written in various regions, retained its general structure over the centuries, and reached our time. The origin of this book is in Arabic but it was translated into Persian soon afterwards, and then into Turkish by Rabghuzi in the early fourteenth century. As one of the most important Khwarazmian Turkic works, Rabghuzi's Qisas Al-Anbiya has always been considered by scholars in terms of content and linguistic features. Numerous manuscripts of this work can be found in various libraries. One of these manuscripts is in the Library of the Iranian Parliament, Islamic Consultative Assembly, which was written in the late Chagatai period. This paper addresses this manuscript and provides information on its content and linguistic features. Examining the phonetic and morphological features reveals that this manuscript was written in Chagatai Turkic. Writing of this manuscript was completed on June 16, 1815 and it was composed of 392 pages. Although the manuscript’s introduction refers to seventy eight stories, the main text includes only fifty two stories. These stories do not only tell about the lives of the prophets but there are also stories related to other characters and events.

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