al-Musawi The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51946-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

al-Musawi, Muhsin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Muhsin J. al-Musawi is professor of Arabic and comparative studies at Columbia University. He has been teaching at the American University of Sharjah and taught at a number of Universities in North Africa and the Middle East. He has published many books in English and Arabic, including Scheherazade in England; Anglo-Orient; 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 and the recipient of many awards, including the prestigious Owais Award in literary criticism.