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THE AUTHOR
Muhsin Madhi

AUTHOR
THE
an Iraqi-American
islamologist and
arabist.

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Muhsin
Madhi He studied with Nabia
Abbott at the Oriental
Institute. (1948-1954)

AUTHOR
Born on June 21, 1926

THE
in the city of Kerbala,
Iraq
He was James Richard
Earned both a B.B.A. Jewett Professor of
and a B.A. in Arabic.
philosophy. (1947)
Taught for a year at
the University of
Baghdad (1947-1948)
To give the reader an insight into
the culture of that period and

THE PURPOSE
the Islamic Golden Age.

The concept of storytelling

stories give a glimpse of the way
of life.
- gender roles
- societal expectations

The portrayal of women on that

era.

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12 CHAPTERS
 CHAPTERS

CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2
THE TALE OF KING THE TALE OF THE
SHAHRAYAR AND OF MERCHANT AND
HIS BROTHER, THE IFRIT
KING SHAHZAMAN
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CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4
THE FISHERMAN THE TALE OF THE
AND THE JINNI PORTER AND THE
YOUNG GIRLS
CHAPTER 5
THE TALE OF THE
WOMAN CUT IN
PIECES, THE THREE
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CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7
THE TALE OF THE THE TALE OF THE
WAZIR NUR AL-DIN, BARBER OF
HIS BROTHER THE BAGHDAD AND THE
WAZIR SHAMS AL- TALES OF HIS SIX
DIN, AND HASAN BROTHER
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CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9
THE TALE OF THE TALE OF
SWEET-FRIEND AND GHANIM IBN AYYUB
AIL-NUR AND HIS SISTER
FITNAH
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CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11
THE TALE OF KING THE DELIGHTFUL
UMAR AL-NUMAN TALE OF THE
AND HIS TWO BEASTS AND BIRDS
REMARKABLE
SONS, SHARKAN
AND DU AL-MAKAN
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CHAPTER 12
THE TALE OF ALI IBN
BAKR AND THE FAIR
SHAMS AL-NAHAR
STORY PLOT
The primary story is about
Shahryar and Shahrazad.

STORY PLOT
When Shahryar discovers
that his queen at the
beginning of the tale is being
unfaithful, he declares that
all women are the same and
vows to take a new bride
each night and have her
killed the next morning.
CHARACTERIZAT
ION
 CHARACTERS

Scheherazade
She was a famed storyteller,
well-read and intelligent
woman and she cared for
the King.
 CHARACTERS

Shahrayar
The King in the kingdom of India, he
was so scared to be betrayed again so he
choose to kill every wife he marry until
Scheherazade came.
 CHARACTERS

Dunyazad (Dinarzad)
she is the younger sister of
Scheherazade, and she was the one who
iniates the cliffhanger in every story of
Scheherazade.
 CHARACTERS

Shahzaman
He is the younger brother of Shahrayar
who caught her wife cheating on him,
and the wife of his brother.
 CHARACTERS

Jafar
He is the vizier of the King and every
single day he beheads the brides of the
King.
facts
The story is based from the early
Arabic Tradition.
Qu’ran is revealed by Allah to
Muhammed.
Al-Mu’allaqat (“hung poems”) is hunged
inside Kaaba in Mecca.
Maqamat (“assemblies”) is written by
Badi’ al-Zaman al Hamadani

The Story of Bayad and Riyad is about the love

of the merchant’s son for the foreign court lady.
Folktales are a long part of the tradition over Arab.
One Thousand and One Nights on the
Arabian Nights continued to be popular.
The Story takes the form of a frame
narrative, where one story contains
another set of stories within it.
The stories told by Scheherazade contains
legendary locations or historical figures such
as Haroun al Rashid
The story became popular in Europe in
18th century.