The Sĕrat (book) Anbiya (from the Arabic anbiyāʾ , "prophets"; sing. nabī ) or Ambiya , sometimes also called Sĕrat Tapĕl Adam ("The formation of Adam"), is the title of Javanese works of literature recounting the lives of the prophets of Islam. There is a considerable variety of such works in both prose and verse, in most cases using Arabic rather than Javanese script. An Arabic book entitled ʿUmdat al-ansāb -a work written in Aceh but based on a sixteenth-century Persian text concerning the genealogy of the prophet Muḥammad-is sometimes