The Arabian Nights : One-Thousand And One Nights

The princess began to weep, for her lover was to die or to marry a woman she despised. She flew up and out of her seat, and she ran as fast as her feet could take her; she could not bear to see her lover’s fate. She knew the fair maiden was behind the door he was to open, and she wanted so badly to be standing in her place. She must find a way to meet him as he opened the door.

The princesses father was the king who also had a semi barbaric nature much like his daughter’s he was known to have taken great aesthetic pleasure in watching the accused subjects choose their own fate, no matter the

The concept of digression is explored and mastered by Shahrazad throughout the sets of stories that comprise The Arabian Nights. Unlike the stories of Jaques and his Master, in Jaques the Fatalist, where digression plays well in a journey without a specific purpose, the stories of Shahrazad and her use of digression has a clear objective. The main character of The Arabian Nights, Shahrazad, makes use of her abilities as an effective storyteller to keep her audience engaged with a perfect sense of Kairos that achieves several purposes: arousing the King´s curiosity and keep it lingering, keeping herself alive, establishing her own

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 Arabian Nights also known as 1001 nights is a collection of entertaining and meaningful stories within stories translated by Husian Haddawy. According to Haddawy, “The stories in The Arabian Nights are works that have been collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia”. The stories in the book are not only entertaining but are also meaningful. Even though The Arabian Nights does not relate to the Quran, there are important Muslim values that are emphasized in the stories, and these values can be applied to our everyday life. Some important Muslim values in The Arabian Nights are the value of aiding those in need, the value of telling the truth, and the value of taking responsibility of your actions. The most important out of all these values is the value of aiding those in need.

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.

To make a grand dénouement, the princess although barbaric, allowed the young lover to live and prosper with a new wife. Sometimes love takes us down unusual paths but we will always find the right path back

At the age of 16 her father dies. At his funeral her mother slyly announces that her brother who was at the age of thirteen will now rule when she dies. Ali was supposed to do this and was outraged. Her only remaining friend, her lady and waiting Seiala convinces her to go and talk to her mother. She did and found out that she will be going on a three month journey to get married in a kingdom she did

Mariam is in absolute disbelief when Jalil’s wives instruct her to marry a forty-five year old man immediately while Jalil watches speechlessly and approves of the arranged, instant, forced marriage. After less than a month of living with her father, his wives find the perfect opportunity to remove Mariam from the household which simultaneously abolishes the last trace of her father’s scandalous mistake of an affair with his housekeeper, Mariam’s mother.

In The Thousand and One Nights the audience is introduced to a pair of brothers who share a similar misfortune: unfaithful wives. While the younger brother, Shahzaman, handles the unfortunate situation at a more intimate level, the older brother, Shahrayar, takes his revenge to a grander scale. Becoming completely untrusting of women and even developing an intense hatred for them, Shahrayar forms a plan to marry a new woman in the town every day, sleep with them, and then kill them the next morning. His plan progresses at such a quick rate that the only girls left in the town are his vizier’s daughters. The older of the two, Shahrazad, who is established as being well-educated in a multitude of topics such as knowing “poetry by heart, had studied historical reports, and was acquainted with the sayings of men and the

Although it is the wife who is always looking for a husband in her personal life, in the Wife’s tale, it is the man who is forced to find what it is that all women desire. In the end he is obligated to marry, while the Wife is always excited to marry her next husband. The Wife wants the woman in the marriage to make the decisions and to have power, which is also seen in the old woman in her tale. In her tale, the old woman basically tricks the man into marrying her, and then into kissing her. This gives her control and she can then reveal her true self.

This is absolute and final ” (Haddawy 15) . He tells her that she will suffer negative consequences, urging her to come back to her senses and abandon her request: “Foolish one, don’t you know that King Shahrayar has sworn to spend but one night with a girl and have he r put to death the next morning?” (Haddawy 15) “YOU, MY DAUGHTER, will likewise perish because of your miscalculation. Desist, sit quietly, and don’t expose yourself to peril. I advise you out of compassion for you ” (Haddawy 17) . However, in the end, Shahrazad achieves what she wants and “Tired and exhausted, the vizier went to King Shahrayar … told him about his daughter, adding that he would give her to him that very night”

The author also delightfully reminds the reader that it was in Baghdad that Scheherazade told the famous tales of the One Thousand and One Nights.

The same is claimed by Goitein as he says that "the first element in the tile of popular book: ‘One Thousand Nights' is very old, as it is an adaptation of the Persian hezar efsane, which means ‘A Thousand Stories,' according to various Muslim writers the name of a pre-Islamic collection of tales and fables."(301-02) W. F. Kirby states while reviewing the work that "Our first reference to The Thousand and One Nights by name dates back to the work of Masoudi in the tenth century where it is said to be based on a Persian work."(112-24) All of these authors date back the work to the same era. Although the time period it was originated has been a topic of study but the author of the work is unknown and not talked about by any of these reviewers.

The two-act comic opera Barbier Von Bagdad is a two-act opera composed by Peter Cornelius to a German Libretto by the composer in 1858. The libretto is based on two stories, The Tale of the Tailor and The Barber’s Stories of his Six Brothers from The Arabian Nights, as commonly known as One Thousand and One Nights. This collection of Middle Eastern, Indian, and North and Western African stories of unknown date and authorship was written in 9th century, when the Arabs were rapidly expanding their territories and the influence of Islam. The stories in the collection praised the virtues from the Arabians’ standard and spread their value around the world. As one of the most well known Middle-Eastern literature, One Thousand and One Nights has not only set the story of Barbier Von Bagdad in an exoticized world, but also fit into the German people’s typical view of Arab, ensuring that the audience could easily accept the characters.