Ulrich Marzolph
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Language
English
Description
The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710–1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis 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,...
Author
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, “101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition” surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered...