The book I chose to talk more about is the Arabian Nights, only because this is a more familiar text to me rather than Al-Ghazali. The Arabian Nights can and is considered the first ever fairy tale of the Islamic world. It's very much like Grimm's fairy tales, in whom there is a story with heroes and heroines, but most importantly a moral of sorts relayed at the end. Although this is not a recognized Islamic text, it is considered one because most of the characters themselves are Muslims and call upon Allah to aid them or repent them at various times in each tale. But to this day the elements that still appeal this book to people are the design, which relays itself as a story within a story; which is also within a story itself. And the fact that Sharazad is a female who is non-Muslim but so smart as to keep inventing these stories so that her life will be spared of the king Shahrayar.
The story starts of with a layout of setting and introduction of characters. We don't get into the actual Arabian Nights for a bit, first we meet the characters. Such as king Shahrayar, and his brother Shahzaman. Shahzaman has recently learned that women are not to be trusted due to the betrayal he suffers at the hands of his queen (3). At the sadness that overtakes his heart he makes off for his brother's palace in search of solace. Once there he sees that his sister-in-law is also unfaithful to his brother in such a way that it makes his wife's sin seem not so bad (5-7). Then king Shahrayar witnesses the betrayal himself and puts his wife to death. He deploys his vizier ordering him to bring a virginal girl for him every evening, and then putting her to death at sunrise, before she has any chance of betraying the king. This sacrificial wedding continues for quite a few days, and in which many lose their daughters to the lustful king, until the day comes when there are not many left. Shehrezade, the viziers own daughter implores her father to marry her to the king.
In Arabian Nights & Days, Mahfouz shows conflict between religion and science or spirituality and reason. In "The Sheikh", a doctor and a religious teacher accuse one another of being wrong or "misguided". The doctor takes pity on the religious people and claims they are hypocrites while the sheikh ...
What influence did Islam on the modern world? Islam had a great influence in the Middle Ages. It also had a lot of influence including trade, learning, science,medicine, mathematics and literature. The rise of Islam began with a man called Mohammed, he was the prophet of Allah. The angle Gabre...
More than 3,000 years ago an ungainly but useful desert aimal was domesticated in Arabia. It was the Arabian camel, a long-legged beast withone large hump on its back. ... It is sturdier than the Arabian and can carry heavier loads. During the winter, its brownish hair is thick and long for protection from the cold nights. ... A special breed of Arabian camel, the dromedary, has been developed for riding and racing. ...
Haroun al-Rashid, the famous caliph of Baghdad from the Arabian Nights lends Haroun and his father Rashid his name (Rashid also being a near anagram to Rushdie). ... Tales from the Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland as well as Peter Pan and the Wizard of Oz are used freely as reference. ...
In his first trip abroad, Rizal had to pass through Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and with his shipmates he debarked and took a quick tour of the desert lands. ... Rizal's dry comments about the arid highlands of southern Arabia would seem pallid compared to the registry of the Philippine Revolution when the social volcano exploded 14 years hence. ... As for the first mark of summer, that of hot, hot days and hot, hot nights, do we perceive the Earth as baking and frying and sizzling more as time passes? ... Enjoy your hot summer days and hot summer nights, without forgetting that t...
More than half of them came to Dubai, where they spent 3.97 million nights at its hotels, compared with 652,887 tourists visiting Abu Dhabi and spending 1,638,222 bed nights. Sharjah hosted 352,398 tourists, spending 960,112 nights. ... The number of nights spent at hotels increased from 5.8 million in 1997 to 6.67 million in 1998, an 18 per cent rise. ... Al Maha: The endangered Arabian Oryx is one of the showpieces of what is billed as the first "Ecotourism" project in the UAE. ... Located adjacent to the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, the water park draws on the rich heritage of Arabian myth an...
In Las ruinas circulares he confronts this idea head on, and although this story has no basis in reality and little relevance to the Argentinean way of life that looks into in other stories in the collection, I think it is important to look at it briefly, because it is the major theme in one of Borges's most beloved books: 1001 Arabian Nights, a book which the protagonist reads himself in El Sur. ... He loves old books and arrives home one night carrying a copy of the Arabian Nights and is wounded in the head and slips into a fever eventually almost dying of septicemia, a disease that al...
