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 influence on theater, opera, music, painting, architecture, and literature. The Arabian Nights Reader offers an authoritative guide to the research inspired by this rich and intricate work. Through a selection of sixteen influential and currently relevant essays, culled from decades of...

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 Arabian Nights manuscripts, to positioning the Nights in modern and postmodern discourse, to the international reception of the Nights in written and oral tradition.

Essays are arranged in five sections. The first section contains essays on Galland's translation and its "continuation" by...

Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia. It has been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others and praised by William Jones, Tagore, E. M. Forster and many more. Yet although in the past few years the poems of Rumi have attracted the kind of popular attention enjoyed by Omar Khayyam in the 19th century, Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves.

A History of Persian Literature...

Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bundelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstumlicher Erzahltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestande mundlich und schriftlich uberlieferter Erzahlungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiosen Hintergrunde auf.

Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bundelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstumlicher Erzahltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestande mundlich und schriftlich uberlieferter Erzahlungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiosen Hintergrunde auf.

Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bundelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstumlicher Erzahltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestande mundlich und schriftlich uberlieferter Erzahlungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiosen Hintergrunde auf.

Dieses umfassende Nachschlagewerk bundelt die Ergebnisse von fast zwei Jahrhunderten internationaler Forschung im Bereich volkstumlicher Erzahltradition. Die Autoren vergleichen die reichen Sammelbestande mundlich und schriftlich uberlieferter Erzahlungen aus den verschiedensten Ethnien und zeigen die sozialen, historischen, geistigen und religiosen Hintergrunde auf.

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 and One Days is actually the adapted translation of a fifteenth-century anonymous Ottoman Turkish compilation titled Relief after Hardship. This compilation, in turn, is the enlarged translation of an equally anonymous Persian collection of tales that likely dates back...