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The second of the five great prophets called Ulü'l-Azm, the Prophet Abraham was sent to the Chaldean nation. His name is mentioned 69 times in 25 Surahs in the Holy Quran. Moreover, Surah 14 of the Quran also bears the name of the Prophet Abraham independently. Since many prophets came from among the descendants of his sons Isaac and Ishmael, the Prophet Abraham is also called "Abu'l-Enbiyâ" meaning father of prophets. In addition, as he was tested by way of his life, his end and his property and passed all of these tests, he was granted the attribute of "Halallah" meaning "friend of God". There are numerous metaphors and figures of speech in various literary works about Prophet Abraham, all details of whose life became subject to countless works in Turkish-Islamic literature. Indeed, mathnawi-style works called Halil-name were also written which treated the life story of Prophet Abraham specifically. There are many couplets about Prophet Abraham in Mathnawi Sharif, which has exerted a huge influence not only on Turkish-Islamic literature but also on the literature of the whole world. There are 123 couplets in total in Mathnawi Sharif about Prophet Abraham. If we classify these couplets on the basis of their topics, we see that 2 are concerned with his father Azer, 21 are concerned with his attribute "Halilullah", 48 are concerned with his being thrown into a fire, 11 with his attempt to sacrifice his last upon God's demand, 2 his building Kaaba together with his last Ishmael, 1 with the incident of ades, or lentil, and 37 with the topic of resurrection. In this paper, an attempt will be made to classify assess from different perspectives the couplets about Prophet Abraham which obtained as a consequence of a thorough examination of the original Persian text of Mathnawi Sharif drawing on various translations and annotations.

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