Abbasid Caliphate
Abbasid Caliphate was the third successor to the Islamic Prophet Mohammed. A caliph was the chief Muslim civil and religious leader. Caliphate just means the reign of a caliph and the area they ruled over. The Abbasid’s descended from Mohammed’s…
Occident
The word: “occident” originates from the Latin verb “occidere,” which means “going down, setting”–in reference to the sun. The word “occidentem” refers to “the western sky,” as in the “part of the sky that the sun sets.” Today, we understand…
Alf Layla Wa-Layla
Alf Layla Wa-Layla is an Arabian name of ‘The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments’ or ‘A Thousand and One Nights’. ‘A Thousand and One Nights’ is a collection of stories and folk tales that have a long history. The first tales were folktales from Persia,…
Frame Tale (Genre)
A frame tale is a type of story telling technique where a story is told within an already developed story. While a story is being told, several other tales will come up during the telling of the story. These tales are…
Aladdin
A wife trying to delay her execution by her husband told many stories each night, one of them being the story of Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp. This one simple bedtime story became one of literature greatest work of all…
ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES
The story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves, which took place in Baghdad, Iraq, introduces us to two main characters. Two brothers: Ali Baba, a poor man who struggle to support his family, and Cassim, who is married to…
Work for Thursday – Thousand and One Nights
For Thursday’s class, I would like you to do two things: Please read “The Story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad.” PDF under Readings. Sign up for one of the topics below (with hypothes.is–two students per topic) and write a 2-paragraph…
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