TY - JOUR T1 - Mixing truth with imagination to structurize the characters in story collection (20 stories from the life of Prophet Muhammad) TT - تمازج الواقعي بالمتخيل لهندسة الشخصيات في المجموعة القصصیة «حياة محمّد (ص) في عشرين قصة» JF - khu-san JO - khu-san VL - 3 IS - 2 UR - http://san.khu.ac.ir/article-1-232-en.html Y1 - 2022 SP - 57 EP - 93 KW - children's story KW - history of Islam KW - character structurizing KW - 20 stories from the life of Prophet Muhammad KW - Abdul-Tawab Yossef N2 - It is important to tell the history for children in the form of a story instead of a soulless and direct report. Because the story has magical tools, including character structurizing, which has attracted the attention of the audience and made it a suitable educational tool for teaching history to children. Abdul-Tawab Yossef teaches the history of Islam to children by using the art of story in his collection of stories (20 stories from the life of Prophet Muhammad). Among the author's tricks in teaching history is the design of fictional characters and their structurizing in the form of objects and animals. This collection of stories is a historical novel about the life of the Messenger of God, which narrates the real events of his life relying on artistic structures. The center of these artistic structures is character structurizing, which has been used for easy understanding of history. The narrator in these stories is designed objects and animals that the author has given life to so that they assume the dignity of humans and living creatures and narrate events from their observations as fictional characters. Based on the descriptive analytical method, this research examines 6 stories from this collection of stories and investigates how to use characters to facilitate the understanding of history and to express it in an easy way to children. The stories in this collection are divided into two parts: human characters that are taken from the history of Islam and have the role of documenting historical events in the story. The second division is fictional characters who play the role of narrators who, as witnesses, narrate the events as they happened. The author chose these characters to attract the attention of the audience to make it easy for the child to understand history by mixing reality with amazing imagination. Especially, he has established a close relationship between those historical events and the structurizing of the characters, which can fulfill the responsibility of the narrative well. M3 10.52547/san.3.2.57 ER -