This article contrasts techniques from non-narrative, poetic and Qurʾānic texts with the narratives of Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (the Stories of the Prophets) in order to interpret passages on Sulaymān/Solomon in pre- and early Arabic-Islamic texts. Beginning with the renowned non-narrative Sulaymān passage in the pre-Islamic poet al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī’s ode of apology to the Lakhmid king al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir and several Qurʾānic passages concerning Sulaymān, the article compares these to the eminently narrative prose renditions of Solomonic legend that appear in Qurʾānic commentary and the (related) popular Stories of the Prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ). I argue that verbal structures and rhetorical techniques characteristic of non-narrative forms such as poetry and the Qurʾān have the effect of preserving and stabilizing the essential panegyric (poetic) or salvific (Qurʾānic) message in a manner that the constantly mutating popular narrative forms neither strive for nor achieve.

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阿拉伯伊斯兰传统中的所罗门和神话王权：Qaṣīdah、Qurʾān 和 Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ

本文将非叙事、诗歌和古兰经文本中的技巧与 Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ（先知的故事）的叙述进行对比，以解释前阿拉伯伊斯兰文本和早期阿拉伯-伊斯兰文本中有关苏莱曼/所罗门的段落。从前伊斯兰诗人 al-Nābighah al-Dhubyānī 向拉赫米德国王 al-Nuʿmān ibn al-Mundhir 道歉的颂歌中著名的非叙述性苏莱曼语段落开始，文章将这些叙述与有关苏莱曼语的几段古兰经段落进行了比较。出现在古兰经注释和（相关）流行的先知故事 (Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ) 中的所罗门传说的散文演绎。