The life stories of the prophets from Adam to Muhammad - peace be upon them all - originating from ancient Arabic and Turkish sources can be cherished for their immediacy and linguistic freshness alone. Essentially, they are the faithfully preserved testimonies in Islamic tradition of events that the Almighty God has made happen to His messengers, examples of His mercy, sent to the most remarkable among His creations and to all of us for admonition, edification, and guidance: small and great, frightening and joyful, and some things that have hardly ever been heard of in the West until now. The wondrous stories of the messengers of the Almighty and Merciful God, now made accessible to the German readership, not only provide an unprecedented insight into the characters of outstanding men and women.