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Journal Article
Envisioned Spaces in Arabian Nights
2011
Overview
Alf Layla w'a Layla, or A Thousand and One Nights are possibly the most fascinating collection of tales in human history. A collection of tales, mostly Persian, some Egyptian in origin, they have survived the test of time, remaining among the most popular and re-cycled into various genres of literature and forms of media. Their impact on the West was unequalled by any other form of literature produced by the East. Arabian Nights, as they were first translated by Galland, revealed a. world of marvels, wonders and rich imagination that the West had never dreamed could exist. Jinnies, magic lamps, sorcerers, flying carpets and horses; palaces of gold and jewels; beautiful damsels, eunuchs and caliphs; gripping tales and adventures; all filled the Western mind with amazement. Yet the Arabian Nights still have a thousand and one more wonders to unfold and the Oriental mind that spun them under starry skies still has more within its cache to be revealed in time. Not least among these are the envisioned spaces that tease the mind into rational calculations, only to escape once more into the realm of imagination. These spaces include magic lamps that hold fast huge genies; underground palaces that serve as luxurious abodes; dungeons that imprison the unsuspecting; valleys that entice only to captivate; secret rooms that hold within their walls terrible mysteries. In these spaces ever-changing boundaries lie untold secrets of the universe; genesis and the beginning of creation; visions of the future, morals and general truths, psychological trauma, semiotics and enigmas; all as eager to be released as the genies held within them. This paper shall be an attempt to fathom some of these spaces and interpret the messages they hold.
Publisher
جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية
