The Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights by al-Musawi, Muhsin J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Is There an Islamic Context for The Thousand and One Nights? 1: The Islamic Factor in Global Times

The Islamic and the Foreign Perspectives The Early Vogue as a Global Index The Frame Tale as Navigational Trope Framing a Collection or Framing Cultures? Warnings Grounded in Islamic Law Multiple Approaches to the Frame Tale The Moral Implication in the Frame Story Resignation or Submission to Fate? Narrating Cultural Consciousness The Frame Story in Historical Contexts The Frame Story as Urban Growth

2: The Unifying Islamic Factor

Narrative Challenge and Attraction Upholding Human Propensity to Security The Ordering of Good and the Forbidding of Evil From Transmission to Narration The Natural and the Supernatural Companionship The Supernatural as Moral Authority The Islamic Narrative Function Loose Thematic Patterns The Particular and the Universal in Religion In Celebration of God Binding Commitments and Pledges Islamic or Not? The Nature of the Discriminatory Instance The Islamic Law and the State Law and Terms of Beauty The Paradisiacal Referent The Sanctified Sphere Apostasy and the End of Narrative Love or Sex? Vicissitudes of Fortune and Human Frailties

3: The Age of Muslim Empire and the Burgeoning of a Text

Representational or Parodic Education and the Paradigm of Rise and Fall Knowledge and the Growth of Empire Education and Vicissitudes of Fate Grounding in Magic Education: Artists and Cultivated Taste Refinement, Profession, and Class Marketability and Freedom as Topography Urbanity and Love Tropes for Imperial Growth: Race and Acquisition of Slaves Islamic Law and the Needs of the Empire Expediency, and the Center That Does Not Hold Narrative as Historiography Vagaries of Politics Wealth and Luxury as Signs of Deterioration

4: The Changing Order: The Role Of the Public in the Thousand and One Nights

The Imperial and the Islamic Sites of Popular Faith: Book Markets Competing Centers or Competing Dynasties? Metropolitan Temptations Travels to the Metropolis Professions and Crafts Narrating the Journey of Consciousness From Regression to Progression The Liberating In-betweenness Wine and Islamic Prohibitions Social Interdependency Idolatry and Monotheism The Urban and the Imperial Cairene Narratives and the Displacement of the Sacred Ethics and Morals Narrating Desire as Sexual Intrigues Institutionalized Religion and Issues of Sects Christians and Jews in an Islamic Environment Heathen and Islamic Narrative

5: Nonreligious Displacements in Popular Tradition

The Unwritten Tale As Medieval Narrative Dichotomous Patterning in the Classical Tradition Signs and Sites of Transgression Appropriation for the Urban Classes Urban Narrative Sites

6: The Public Role in Islamic Narrative Theorizations 7: Scheherazade’s Nonverbal Narratives in Religious Contexts

What Is Nonverbal Narrative? Scriptoria and the Blank Page Iconic Inscription or Calligraphy Talismans, Magical Practices, and Amulets The Nonverbal in Human Action Women’s Counterhegemonic Discourse Mental Images and Pictorial Resolutions Food Semiotics The Zero Meal

Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index