BackSeminar on the Book “The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights”
Programme Type
Language
Venue
Kalima Reading Club
Date & Time
- 30 Apr 07:30 PM
Session Details
Discussion and signing of the book titled “The Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights"
About the book:
Dr. Mohsen Jassim Al-Moussawi, professor of Arabic and Comparative Studies at Columbia University, raises an important question that many researchers and those interested in the Arabian Nights have overlooked: Does the Thousand and One Nights have an Islamic background? This book answers this question by navigating the tales of the Thousand and One Nights, presenting a new reading that places them in their Arab-Islamic context through the use of hisba evidence and literary, jurisprudence, history, geography and other works. This reading of the Thousand and One Nights investigates the impact of the Islamic factor on the structure and themes. Al-Musawi proves through this work that the Nights would not have gained so much popularity and power of influence if they had not evolved and originated in a strong Islamic cultural and literary climate. In this way, this work restores the specificity of the Thousand and One Nights and places it in its original Arab-Islamic context, which has long been read and celebrated as world literature but has not received the necessary care to frame and read it as part of the culture that gave birth to it.
Speakers
Dr Mohsen Al-Moussawi
Dr Mohsen Al-Moussawi
