Relief After Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days Contributor(s): Marzolph, Ulrich (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814342779 ISBN-13: 9780814342770 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $44.54 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Literary Collections | Middle Eastern |
Dewey: 398.209 |
LCCN: 2016960245 |
Series: Fairy-Tale Studies |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.85 lbs) 162 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710-1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand and One Days is actually the adapted translation of a fifteenth-century anonymous Ottoman Turkish compilation titled Relief after Hardship. This compilation, in turn, is the enlarged translation of an equally anonymous Persian collection of tales that likely dates back to as early as the thirteenth century. The tales in both the Ottoman Turkish and the Persian collections are mostly tales of the marvelous and the strange, a genre that dominated much of the narrative literatures of the pre-modern Muslim world. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marzolph, Ulrich: - Ulrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Gottingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board of the Enzyklopadie des Marchens (1986-2015), he is now conducting a research project studying the impact of narratives from the Muslim Middle East on Western tradition. He is the editor of The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006) and The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (Wayne State University Press, 2007). |