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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | The thousand and one nights in Arabic literature and society / edited by Richard G. Hovannisian and Georges Sabagh ; introduction by Fedwa Malti-Douglas. |
| Added Author: | Hovannisian, Richard G. Sabagh, Georges, |
| Corporate Added Name: | University of California, Los Angeles G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies. |
| Publisher: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Pages: | vii, 121 p. : ill. |
| ISBN: | 0521573971 (hbk.) |
| Notes: | c1997 by the Regents of the University of California.Proceedings of the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, May 12-14, 1989. |
| Bibliographic Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- The thousand and one nights in Arabic literature and society / Andre Miquel --Historical and mythical Baghdad in the tale of 'Ali b. Bakkar and Shams al-Nahar, or the resurgence of the imaginary / jamel Eddine Bencheikh -- 'Aja'ib in The thousand and one nights / Roy P. Mottahedeh -- Shahrazad feminist / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Nihil obstat in storytelling? / Seeger A. Bonebakker -- From history to fiction : the tale told by the king's steward in The thousand and one nights / Muhsin Mahdi -- Ancient Near Eastern traditions in The thousand and one nights / Stanislav Segert |
| Descriptors: | Conferences Thousand and one nights Belles-lettres Thousand and one nights |
| Series: | 12 |
| Location: | SOAS, Univ. of London. Main Lib. P892.784ALF /735208 |
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