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A Hundred and One Nights
Contributor(s): Fudge, Bruce (Editor), Fudge, Bruce (Translator), Irwin, Robert (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 0814745199     ISBN-13: 9780814745199
Publisher: New York University Press
OUR PRICE: $33.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Middle Eastern
- Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval
Dewey: 398.22
LCCN: 2016019039
Series: Library of Arabic Literature
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" L (1.70 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - North Africa
- Cultural Region - Arab World
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Publisher Description:

Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier's daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.

Although these tales draw on motifs and story elements that circulated across cultures, A Hundred and One Nights is distinctly rooted in Arabic literary culture and the Islamic tradition. It is also likely much older than Thousand and One Nights, drawing on Indian and Chinese antecedents. This careful edition and vibrant translation of A Hundred and One Nights promises to transport readers, new and veteran alike, into its fantastical realms of magic and wonder.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.


Contributor Bio(s): Irwin, Robert: - Robert Irwin is the author of The Arabian Nights: A Companion as well as numerous other studies of Middle Eastern politics, art, and mysticism.Fudge, Bruce: - Bruce Fudge is Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva. He is the author of Quranic Hermeneutics: al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary (2011) as well as a number of articles on the interpretation of the Quran and medieval and modern Arabic literature.
 
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