Tales of a Thousand and One Nights. Nights 306–356
4 hrs. 16 min.
Description
We can judge the process of compiling the collection of fairy tales “One Thousand and One Nights” from a message by the bibliographer of the 10th century, an-Nadim, who relates that his slightly older contemporary, a certain Abd-Allah al-Djahshiyari (a figure, by the way, quite real), intended to create a book consisting of a thousand tales—“of the Arabs, Persians, Greeks, and other peoples”—one per night, with each tale being about fifty pages long. But he died before he could finish, having managed to collect only four hundred and eighty stories. He took the material mainly from professional storytellers, whom he called from all ends of the Caliphate, as well as from written sources. Once these tales took root on their new “home” soil, they grew local layers and lost many of their original features.
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