Relief after hardship : the Ottoman Turkish model for The thousand and one days / Ulrich Marzolph.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marzolph, Ulrich, author.

Series:

Series in fairy-tale studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pétis de La Croix, François, 1653-1713. Mille et un jours.

Pétis de La Croix, François.

Ferec baʻd eş-şidde--Tietze.

Ferec baʻd eş-şidde.

Chihil va shish ḥikāyat.

Tales--Turkey.

Tales.

Turkey.

Tales--Iran.

Iran.

Physical Description:

viii, 151 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Ulrich Marzolph's Relief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for The Thousand and One Days is a detailed assessment of the Ottoman Turkish compilation and its Persian precursor. Based upon Andreas Tietze's unpublished German translation of the Ottoman Turkish Ferec ba'd es-sidde, it traces the origins of the collection's various tales in the pre-modern Persian and Arabic Literatures and its impact on Middle Eastern and world literatures and narrative tradition. The concept of "relief after hardship" has the same basic structure as the European fairy tale, wherein the protagonist undergoes a series of trials and tribulations before he attains a betterment of his status. Marzolph contends that the early reception of these tales from Muslim narrative tradition might well have had an inspiring impact on the nascent genre of the European fairy tale five has come to know international success today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Pétis de la Croix's Mille et un jours 7

The Ottoman Turkish Ferec ba'd es-sidde 13

The Persian Jami' al-hikayat 16

Manuscripts of Jãmi' al-hikayat 18

Tales from Ferec ba'd es-sidde in Persian, Arabic, and International Tradition 28

Genres of Tales in Ferec ba'd es-sidde 35

Ferec ba'd es-sidde and "Middle Literature" in the Muslim World 42.

Notes:

"Based on Andreas Tietze's unpublished German translation of the anonymous fifteenth-century Ottoman Turkish Ferec baʻd eş-şidde."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-136) and indexes.

ISBN:

0814342779

9780814342770

OCLC:

957636628