Luqman
Islamic figure · Doctors
A figure from pre-Islamic Arabia who became the Qur'an's model of wisdom - then absorbed Aesop's biography wholesale when medieval storytellers needed a fabulist of their own.
Luqman is read about 375 times a day, in 36 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
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The Pandnameh (Book of Advice) of Luqman, copied by Mahmud ibn Ishaq, dated 941 AH (1)_of_Luqman%2C_copied_by_Mahmud_ibn_Ishaq%2C_dated_941_AH_(2).jpg?width=1200)
The Pandnameh (Book of Advice) of Luqman, copied by Mahmud ibn Ishaq, dated 941 AH (2)About this person
Luqman was a legendary sage in Arab tradition before Islam, known as "the Wise." The Qur'an's 31st surah bears his name and frames him as a monotheist father dispensing moral counsel to his son. That scriptural stamp made him a vessel: over the medieval centuries, proverbs piled up under his name, then entire fables, then - in a curious case of cultural transfer - biographical details that Europe had long attached to Aesop migrated east and fused with Luqman's legend. Persian, Arabic, and Turkish literatures all spun stories around him, until the historical man, if he ever existed, vanished beneath layers of borrowed myth.