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"A Thousand and One Nights" and the construction of Islam in the Western imagination.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"A Thousand and One Nights" and the construction of Islam in the Western imagination./
Author:	Oliver, Martyn Allebach.
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephen Prothero.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3348614
ISBN:	9781109041217

"A Thousand and One Nights" and the construction of Islam in the Western imagination.
Oliver, Martyn Allebach.

"A Thousand and One Nights" and the construction of Islam in the Western imagination. - 309 p.

Adviser: Stephen Prothero.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2009.

This dissertation examines the influence of the text popularly known as the Arabian Nights, introduced to Europe in 1704, in the development of Western representations of Islam and Muslims. It argues that the Nights, though neither a "religious" text nor overtly concerned with religious questions, had an extensive impact on how modern Western authors and readers depicted and imagined Islam. In the course of this analysis of the development of the Nights as an object of the Western imagination, "religion" as an object of academic inquiry is problematized, the concept of "Islam" in Western discourse is historically contextualized, and the relationship between religion and literature is examined.

ISBN: 9781109041217Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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520 $a This dissertation examines the influence of the text popularly known as the Arabian Nights, introduced to Europe in 1704, in the development of Western representations of Islam and Muslims. It argues that the Nights, though neither a "religious" text nor overtly concerned with religious questions, had an extensive impact on how modern Western authors and readers depicted and imagined Islam. In the course of this analysis of the development of the Nights as an object of the Western imagination, "religion" as an object of academic inquiry is problematized, the concept of "Islam" in Western discourse is historically contextualized, and the relationship between religion and literature is examined.
520 $a Islam in the Nights exists as an assumed cultural constant. It is never explicitly described or explained, but operates instead as the religious context within which the action of the many interlocking stories occurs. The text depicts Islam in terms of what is now called "lived religion," the everyday practices of ordinary Muslims. There are, however, two complicating factors to this representation. First, many stories in the Nights involve supernatural events. Because the Nights was one of the first widely read literary objects from the Muslim world, Islam and the fantastic became intimately associated. Second, the translators of the Nights, in accordance with their individual opinions or professional aims, annotated their editions with a wide array of religious, cultural, and historical anecdotes. These notes both sought to explain Islam to the readers of the Nights and contributed to the development of a critical anthropology of Islam and the "Orient."
520 $a In this confluence of factors, the representation of Islam that emerged from Western renderings of the Nights was a study in contradiction: rational and irrational, sexually licentious and repressive, violent and forgiving. In conclusion, the developing image of Islam in the West parallels the development of Western self-identity. As the Nights was recast and retranslated, it mirrored and reinforced European and American ideas about themselves. This process of definition is ongoing, and the Nights continues to play a role in that story.
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