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Jesus in Islam the Quranic palm tree. Ali ibn al-Athir (d. 1233), an Arab or Kurdish historian and biographer, reported in "The Perfection of History (al-Kamil)", a work which became a standard for later Muslims, that Joseph the carpenter had a more prominent role, but is not mentioned as a relative or husband of Mary. Al-Athir writes about how Jesus as a young boy helped to detect a thief and bringing a boy back to life which Jesus was accused of having killed. That work mentions a version of the birth narrative having taken place in Egypt without mention of a manger under