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Read More about Ḥannā Diyāb and His Tales: The Early Eighteenth-Century Syrian Storyteller and His Contribution to the Thousand and One Nights (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East #198)

This is the first attempt to provide a representative inventory of fables documented in premodern Arabic literature. The introduction presents a detailed effort to define the Arabic fable and a condensed historical survey together with a short assessment of the content characteristics of the Arabic...

Read More about The Arabic Fable: An Inventory of Short Stories Featuring Speaking Animals and Other Nonhuman Characters in Premodern Arabic Literature (Global Arabic Literary Cultures #3)

The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of "Oriental" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during the eighteenth century and has since exerted a profound...

Read More about The Arabian Nights Reader (The Donald Haase Fairy-Tale Studies)

In a 2004 meeting marking the Arabian Nights' tercentennial at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenb ttel, Germany, nineteen international scholars presented their work on the transnational aspects of the Arabian Nights. This volume collects their papers, whose topics range from the history of the...

Read More about The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (The Donald Haase Fairy-Tale Studies)

Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle...

Read More about 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition (The Donald Haase Fairy-Tale Studies)

Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle...

Read More about 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition (The Donald Haase Fairy-Tale Studies)

The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710-1712 by French Orientalist scholar Fran ois P tis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand...

Read More about Relief After Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days (The Donald Haase Fairy-Tale Studies)

Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi is the unsurpassed master of the art of illustration in Persian lithographed books of the Qajar period, both in terms of quality and quantity of production. In the decade of documented activity, 1263-72/1846-55, the artist produced more than 2,300 single images in about 70...

Read More about Mirzā ʿali-Qoli Khoʾi: The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period. Vol. 1 (Islamic Manuscripts and Books #20)

Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi is the unsurpassed master of the art of illustration in Persian lithographed books of the Qajar period, both in terms of quality and quantity of production. In the decade of documented activity, 1263-72/1846-55, the artist produced more than 2,300 single images in about 70...

Read More about Mirzā ʿali-Qoli Khoʾi: The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period. Vol. 2 (Islamic Manuscripts and Books #20)

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources.

The tales of the Arabian Nights have long been the focus of scholarly research and critique, but no English language work has...

Read More about The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia: [2 Volumes]