1001 Nights – Page 2 – purple motes

Apollonius of Tyre through Arabian Nights: patterned tales

Apollonius of Tyre, like Arabian Nights, is patterned text. A medical student’s affair with a girl’s corpse is an entertaining relational-textual feature. … Read the post Apollonius of Tyre through Arabian Nights: patterned tales

Al-Asma’i, an exemplar of adab in the early Abbasid caliphate, contrasted Bedouin love poetry, not with courtly poetry, but with sex. … Read the post courtly and Bedouin love poetry in the early Islamic world