أسطورة خاتم سلیمان الملك : أصل وتوظیف أدبي

Abstract

The myth of King Solomon’s Ring is an allegorical tale narrated in the Talmud, the sacred book of Jewish jurisprudence, from where the story took a start to assume different shapes and found its way into the Quranic exegeses as an Israelite tradition of apocryphal authenticity. And since the literature is a repository of all kinds of mythological traditions, the myth of Solomon’s Ring has been deployed of necessity in different literary genres like novel, short story, poetry and folklore. Then there are movies like The Lord of the Rings that adopted its scenario from a novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. This article is a brief account of the myth from its origin to the artistic use if it in Arabic, Urdu, Persian and English literatures.