According to Arabic Scholar Robert Irwin, the culture that produced the Thousand and One Nights is the same culture that embraced the teachings of Muhammad contained in the Koran. Write a paper in which you analyze one or more episodes from Thousand and One Nights in relation to a passage from the Koran. Do the values represented by the two texts correspond to each other or do you see a conflict? .
Even though the work of the Thousand and One Nights represents basically a female that is a strong and clever idol and continuously imaginative and creative, it seems like the Prologue of the Thousand and One Nights is a story not in favor of women. It corresponds with the writings of the passage "Women" in the Koran. The values represented in the "Prologue" of the Thousand and One Nights confirm the ones written in the Koran, "4.Women" because men are represented as authoritative and forceful whereas women are portrayed as beautiful "things", there only to obey, entertain and please the male characters. .
When King Shahzaman in the Prologue of the Thousand and One Nights saw his wife cheating on him he concluded that one couldn't trust women. Although he is the king and therefore the supreme ruler in his royal state it did not prevent him from being betrayed by his own wife. Because women are not trustworthy he has to kill her. This part is a clear similarity to the passage "Women" in the Koran. "If any of your women commit fornication confine them to their houses till death overtakes them or till God finds another way for them" (Koran 1430). It seems like it is acceptable for him, being a man, to kill her and the cook because they have done him wrong. That is justice according to the Koran.
The brother of Shahzaman, King Shahrayar, almost shares the same fate with his brother. He becomes violently angry when he finds out about the unfaithfulness of his wife. A second time is shown that women are not trustworthy.
