Read carefully, and making specific reference to the text, come discuss one or more of the following:What can we learn about science in the Abbasid era?What elements of the story appear Islamic, and what elements un-Islamic? What lessons is the story trying to convey?
Arabian Nights and the tales of Duban The 1001 Arabian Nights is a collection of folk tales, heavily influenced by Indian and Persian literature that first appeared in Arabic in the early 700s, and gradually coalesced over the following centuries. The environment is of the Abbasid caliphate of Harun al-Rashid, and the caliph and his […]