Importance Of Muslim Values In The Arabian Nights

Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work is not so popular in common people. Theses stories are some of the stories from the Arabic work "The Thousand and One Nights." The work of "The Thousand and One Nights" represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and

The first night's story in Arabian Nights is that of the Merchant and the Demon. Told by Shahrazad, the story offers a remarkable parallel to her own situation as she faces immanent death. Thus, the story of the Merchant and the Demon is told as a parable within the frame story, presenting a poignant analogy for Shahrazad's own situation. The Merchant and the Demon is a short tale but one filled with themes such as power, guilt, justice, and moral responsibility. Through the clever analogy with her own situation, Shahrazad also explores the theme of creative problem solving in tricky situations. Moreover, the story illustrates the core differences between pre-Islamic and Islamic values in Arabian society. Because the theme of gender roles and norms are not present within the Merchant and the Demon, the story shows how sexism is simply a form of general political and social oppression.

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In Thousand and One Nights, Shahrazad has volunteered to marry the king, knowing that he kills the women he sleeps with the next morning (p.554). Shahrazad’s plan is to tell him stories every night with each one being better than the last (p.554). The king will not want to kill her because he will want to hear her stories and by doing this she hopes to teach the king how to restore order in his own realm and his own soul (p.554).

The following night, Dinarzad said to her Scheherazade, “Dear sister, if you aren’t very sleepy, please tell us one of your fascinating tales?” The King added, “Let it be the continuation of the fisherman and the colored fish.” Scheherazade replied, “With the finest pleasure, O King.”:

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Outside of sex, learned women could manipulate powerful men via their intellectual abilities, reflecting the increased amount of knowledge they could potentially gain. Shahrazad takes on this role in A Thousand and One Nights, a frame narrative translated from Arabic into a Syrian manuscript in the fourteenth century centering on King Shahrayar’s disillusionment with women. After seeing his wife, his brother’s wife, and a demon’s wife all have affairs, he decides to take a bride every night and kill her at dawn in an attempt to avoid women’s cunning nature. Yet Shahrazad, the vizier’s daughter, makes the king face women’s cunning nonetheless by volunteering as the next bride to save women. By telling nightly stories that end on cliffhangers, Shahrazad ensures that the king’s desire to listen to her overpowers his desire to kill her. Simultaneously, she weaves moral lessons into her stories that make Shahrayar reconsider his generalizations of women. Unlike the average person, Shahrazad could keep up the charade because she “had read the books of literature, philosophy, and medicine. She knew poetry by heart, had studied historical reports, and was acquainted with the sayings of men and the maxims of sages and kings” (Nights 562). With her unique knowledge of literature and philosophy, Shahrazad wins the king over by producing meaningful stories night after night. In the end, she outsmarts him by manipulating him into changing his plans without even noticing. As she subverts

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1001 Nights is a collection of stories from the Middle East and South Asia from as early as 800 AD. The stories, originally in Arabic, in this collection have been handed down generation over generation. While time has gone on and the stories have been passed from person to person and through many trials of translation, there has been several different versions of the way one portrays these stories.

Stories like Sindbad, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp and other popular stories are very common today in the western culture. Animated movies were also made for the entertainment of kids on these popular stories. One might wonder that where these stories originated and how it came down and made place in the western culture. Although these stories are very popular in both the western culture and the eastern culture but the original literary work is not so popular in common people. Theses stories are some of the stories from the Arabic work "The Thousand and One Nights." The work of "The Thousand and One Nights" represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and continuously imaginative and creative. It is an anonymous work

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It is, in fact, a blend of Greek, Chinese, Indian, Turkish, Persian and Arab sources although scholars agree that the frame story, of Shahrazad saving herself from execution by King Shahriyar by recounting a series of entertaining stories and using cliffhangers each night, is likely of Indian origin. The tales of The Thousand and One Nights are rooted in oral traditions, and these tales were further popularized by various professional storytellers who would recite them in coffeehouses, the main forums for interactions between people, all over the Middle East. These tales contain three major strains: Indo-Persian stories that were later adapted into Arabic, stories composed in Baghdad, and stories composed in Egypt. It is said that the Arabian Nights actually originates from an old Persian book called Hazar Afsana, or A Thousand Legends, which was later translated into Arabic. The tales of Hazar Afsana were modified between the 10th and the 16th centuries, and they, in turn, gave us one of the most famous books in Classical Arabic Literature, The Thousand and One Nights. This unusual title was known in the 12th century, and it came to be not because there were a thousand and one stories, nor because Shahrazad continuously told stories for a thousand and one nights, but merely because “a thousand and one” is used to signify a large number close to infinity, and because in the Ancient East, time was counted in nights and not in days. Moreover, it is said that this title most likely originated from the Turkish expression “bin-bir” which means a thousand and one, and is often used to indicate a large number or an unimaginable amount of