The Arabian Nights Reader

Abstract

The growth of scholarly interest in the Arabian nights / Muhsin Jassim Ali -- A ninth-century fragment of the "Thousand nights": new light on the early history of the Arabian nights / Nabia Abbott -- The oldest documentary evidence for the title Alf laila wa-laila / Solomon D. Goitein -- Neglected conclusions of the Arabian nights: gleanings in forgotten and overlooked recensions / Heinz Grotzfeld -- The age of the Galland manuscript of the Nights: numismatic evidence for dating a manuscript? / Heinz Grotzfeld -- The sources of Galland's Nuits / Muhsin Mahdi -- Greek form elements in the Arabian Nights / Gustave E. von Grunebaum -- Romance as genre in The thousand and one nights / Peter Heath -- Narrative-men / Tzvetan Todorov -- An analysis of the "Tale of the three apples" from The thousand and one nights / Roger Allen -- Historical and mythical Baghdad in the tale of ʻAli b. Bakkār and Shams al-Nahār, or the resurgence of the imaginary / Jamel Eddine Bencheikh -- The monstrous births of "Aladdin" / Michael Cooperson -- An allegory from the Arabian nights: the city of brass / Andras Hamori -- From history to fiction: the tale told by the king's steward / Muhsin Mahdi -- Sinbad the Sailor: a commentary on the ethics of violence / Peter D. Molan -- Shahrazād feminist / Fedwa Malti-douglas.