The Thousand and One Nights / / Muhsin S. Mahdi.

This volume discusses The Thousand and One Nights' themes of space and travel showing how they are used not only as a setting in which the story unfolds, but also as the dynamic force which propels the heroes and the story to the final dénouement. These events often symbolize a process of tran...

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Superior document:Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures ; v.7
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, [1995]
©1995
Year of Publication:1995
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures
Physical Description:1 online resource (170 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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