One Night Only

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. However, even though illustrations and certain parts of the stories have changed, the overall story

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

Frontiers in the Arabian Nights, A Reflection of Changes in Hierarchies and Effective Storytelling 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

Peter Barnes’ 1999 release of Arabian Nights is a compelling story involving high stake adventure, suspense, magic and a foundational element of romance. This epic fantasy utilizes an ancient cultural technique in literature which incorporates a complex overlapping narrative characterized by threading moral lessons within this idealistic medieval tale. The intricate framing pattern of story within story demonstrates what an important visionary tool, narration is to the effectiveness of oral storytelling

Both the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘1001 Nights’ feature male protagonists who traverse the seas, and the concepts and themes of men seafaring is common throughout most canonical texts. For example, the allusion of Odysseus’ difficult journey is made when a minor male character in Apuleius’ ‘The Golden Ass’ describes his seafaring adventures as being ‘positively Ulyssian’ (‘Ulyssian’ thus being a reference the Roman naming of Odysseus) (pg 29). Furthermore, both texts share themes, such as: seafaring, the supernatural

The Arabian Nights is renowned for its multiple uses of enframed narratives. The layering of stories adds new meaning to the various tales of The Arabian Nights by bringing up new questions. In every story one reads, one finds themselves asking why Shahrazad would tell such a story, what kind of message is this tale giving Shahriar, and why bother telling another story within an already enframed story. However, The Arabian Nights is not alone in its use of the enframed story. Works inspired by The

Sex, Lies, and Open Sesame In Richard Burton’s translation of Arabian Nights, several stories revolve around three ideas; sex, lies, and violence. It seems that one idea hinges on another and the stories use one to justify the other. This paper will explore the use of sex, lies, and violence and their interdependence on one another throughout three stories. These stories are “The Story of King Shahryar and His Brother,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” and

case of literature one can find significant context, themes, and ideas that parallel each other in different cultures, places, and times. One of the most prevalent ones is the significance of doubles in text. When looking at the historic Middle-Eastern, historic, text of One Thousand and One Knights we find the popular them of doubles in the short tale of The Strange Khalifat. In this specific tale we find a rebuilt man in Muhamad- Ali, a former merchant who spends his nights impersonating Baghdad’s

within. Essentially a frame narrative is a story within another story. As in the story One Thousand and One Night the frame narrative is used to tell many different stories within the main story. Although the stories in One Thousand and One Nights are separate from the main story the stories are still relative to the main idea. In One Thousand and One Night the separate stories within are used to delay execution of one of the main characters. In the story of Canterbury tales the frame narrative is used

The Thousand and One Nights, generally known to the English, speaking world as the Arabian Nights, is a compendium of Arabic tales compiled between the twelfth and the fourteenth centuries. The collection starts with the story of King Shahrayar. Betrayed by his adulterous wife, he swears never to trust a woman again, deciding instead to marry a different virgin every night and have her executed the next day. He carries out his plan for three years, until his Vizier can no longer find a virgin to