Joseph is a person who has an important place in both Jewish and Islamic traditions. Known as "Yosef" in Hebrew and meaning "to increase", the Arabic equivalent of this name is "Yลซsuf". He is the son of Jacob, who is considered the ancestor of the twelve tribes that make up the Israelites. He is also mentioned as one of the twenty-five prophets mentioned in the Holy Quran.
According to the Torah, his father Jacob had a special interest in Joseph and gave him a colorful, special robe as a gift. It is stated that Joseph had a divine ability to interpret dreams. This situation causes him to incur the anger of his older brothers who are jealous of him. They first throw him into a well, but then sell him to a passing caravan and hand him over to the Egyptians as a slave.
While the story of Joseph has similarities in Judaism and Islam, the narratives in Christianity largely overlap with the Jewish tradition. His life is described in detail in the Book of Creation in the Tanakh and in the Surah Yusuf in the Quran.
As described in the Quran, Joseph is taken out of the well by merchants and taken to Egypt and sold to notables. However, currency designations such as "dirham" in this narrative are historically controversial. Because the dirham was far from being an officially used currency in Egypt during the time of Joseph; It is a unit that has its origins in Greece and was used in the Sasanian Empire during the years when Islam emerged.