ad), 6 but her story probably already circulated in a similar form among Christian Arabs before Islam. 7 Fourth and finally is the opening episode from the Story of al-Zir, an orally transmitted folk epic set in pre-Islamic times (5th c. ad), popular among both Muslim and Christian Arabs, 8 and written down in Middle Arabic in various recensions since the 18th c. ad.
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Johan Weststeijn (2016) studied this question.