Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights

List of contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Is There an Islamic Context for The Thousand and One Nights? 1. The Islamic Factor in Global Times 2. The Unifying Islamic Factor 3. The Age of Muslim Empire and the Burgeoning of a Text 4. The Changing Order: The Role of the Public in The Thousand and One Nights 5. Nonreligious Displacements in Popular Tradition 6. The Public Role in Islamic Narrative Theorizations 7. Scheherazade's Nonverbal Narratives in Religious Contexts Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University. He has published many books in English and Arabic, including The Postcolonial Arabic Novel; Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition; Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict; and Islam in the Street: The Islamic Dynamic in Literary Production, as well as four novels. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Muhsin Al-Musawi, Muhsin (Professor of Arabic Literature Al-Musawi, Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Muhsin Al&, Muhsin Al-musawi
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.05.2009
• EAN: 9780231146340
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14634-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Middle East, Folklore, myths & legends, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)