The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights

Muhsin J. al-Musawi

May, 2009
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14634-0
$45.00 / £31.00

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

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Middle Eastern Literature

About the Author

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.

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