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Your claim assumes we know exactly when Yusuf (Joseph) and Musa (Moses) lived.
We don't.
Neither the Quran nor the Bible gives dates. Scholars have proposed widely different chronologies:
Yusuf has been placed anywhere from the Middle Kingdom to the Second Intermediate Period (the Hyksos era).
Musa has been placed anywhere from the 15th century BC to the 13th century BC, with many scholars doubting the Exodus happened as traditionally described at all.
Since the dates themselves are disputed, saying "Yusuf lived before Pharaoh was used as a royal title" is already resting on speculation.
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Also, ancient Jews already distinguished the stories
Long before Islam, Jewish traditions had expanded and retold the Yusuf and Musa narratives.
The Quran frequently assumes its audience already knows these stories.
If earlier oral traditions referred to Yusuf's ruler differently, the Quran wouldn't need supernatural knowledge to inherit that distinction.
The absence of surviving written evidence isn't evidence the tradition never existed.
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If the argument is that title choice proves miraculous historical precision, then we'd expect that precision everywhere.
Yet historians point to several debated issues, including:
the identity of the Exodus Pharaoh,
the historicity of Musa,
the chronology of Yusuf,
references to crucifixion in ancient Egypt,
descriptions of buildings and political structures.
Whether one accepts these criticisms or not, they show that the title argument can't simply be isolated as definitive proof.
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In other words, the argument shows a possible historical correspondence, not a conclusive miracle. To establish the conclusion that "it can only be the word of Allah," it would need to eliminate all plausible natural explanations. It does not do that.
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