This is a sub-article to Joseph . For the singer see Yusuf Islam.'Yusuf (circa 1610 BC - 1500 BC?)http://www.thetruthoflife.org/messengers_jacob.htm http://www.zainab.org/commonpages/ebooks/english/short/prophets.htm, (Arabic: ????, also Yousef, Yousuf, Youssef, Yussef, Yusef, Yossef, Yousov, Yousif or Yosef), is a prophet in the Qur'an, the holy scriptures of Islam. The figure corresponds to the character from the Jewish texts and the Christian Bible as Joseph and is the Arabic variant of that