Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science

Ibrahim Akel, Ph.D. (2016), National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, is a Teacher - Researcher at Sciences Po, INALCO, and the University of Lille. He has published many articles on the Thousand and one Nights: Primary Sources, Editions and Translations.William Granara is Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His teaching and research cover both classical and modern Arabic literature. He is the author of Narrating Muslim Sicily (2019), and translator of several Arabic novels into English.

• ContentsAvant-proposAboubakr ChraïbiPrefaceList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1: The Sources of the Thousand and One Nights1 Dans l’atelier des Mille et une nuits Ulrich Marzolph2 Reshaping the Frame Story of the Thousand and One NightsThe Coherence of Prologue and Epilogue in the Earliest Existing Arabic MssJohannes Thomann3 Les manuscrits des Mille et une nuits au MarocAhmed Saidy4 Redécouverte d’un manuscrit oublié des Mille et une nuits Le manuscrit de James AndersonIbrahim AkelPart 2: Galland’s Translation and the Eighteenth Century5  Métissage and the Literary Field of the French EnlightenmentThe Impact of Galland’s Translation of the Arabian Nights Anne E. Duggan6 Genie in a BookshopPrint Culture, Authorship, and ‘The Affair of the Eighth Volume’ at the Origins ofLes Mille et une nuitsArafat Abdur RazzaquePart 3: The Nights, World Literature, and the Arts7 Eugénie et les deux rêveurs Abdelfattah Kilito8 Subtile influence des Mille et une nuitsdans le Rimbaud des IlluminationsRafika Hammoudi9  Callida JuncturaRichard F. Burton’s Transtextual 1001 Nights and the Source of Its PoetryMichael James Lundell10 Sacred and Profane Love in the Arabian NightsNūr al-Dīn ibn Bakkār vs. Nūr al-Dīn ibn ḪāqānWilliam Granara11 Hārūn Al-Rašīd, the Arabian Nights, and Politics on the Arabic Stage, 1850s–1920sAdam Mestyan12 Alfred Faraǧ’s Arabian NightsOngoing Experimentation in Arabic TheatreDaniela Potenza13 The Reception of One Thousand and One Nights in Polish Contemporary Literature Magdalena Kubarek14 Italian NightsThree Twentieth-Century Examples of Reception (Vittorini, Pasolini, Calvino)Marina Paino15 L’héritage des Mille et une nuitschez Michel Ocelot Ilaria VitaliPart 4: The Nights, the Humanities, and the Sciences16 American NightsThe Introduction and Usage of theArabian Nights within the US’s Print ModernityRasoul Aliakbari17 Jacqueline Kahanoff on the Margins of A Thousand and One NightsDaniel Behar18 Healing by ExemplaPolitical Therapy in theNights’ HypertextDominique Jullien19 The Devil in the Details, or, Economics in Thousand and One NightsEyüp ÖzverenIndex