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001 2008039653
003 DLC
005 20090827091001.0
008 080909s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780231146340 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0231146345 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780231519465 (e-book)
020 $a023151946X (e-book)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn248538979
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050 00 $aPJ7737$b.M75 2009
082 00 $a398.220953$222
100 1 $aMūsawī, Muḥsin Jāsim.
245 14 $aThe Islamic context of the Thousand and one nights /$cMushin J. al-Musawi.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 334 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [307]-317) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: is there an Islamic context for the Thousand and one nights? -- The Islamic factor in global times -- The unifying Islamic factor -- The age of Muslim empire and the burgeoning of a text -- The changing order: the role of the public in the Thousand and one nights -- Nonreligious displacements in popular tradition -- The public role in Islamic narrative theorizations -- Scheherazade's nonverbal narratives in religious contexts -- Conclusions.
630 00 $aArabian nights.
650 0 $aIslam in literature.
650 0 $aArabic literature$xIslamic influences.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0903/2008039653.html