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A medieval collection of stories, translated from Arabic into Spanish in 1253.
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Arabic fiction
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A medieval collection of stories, translated from Arabic into Spanish in 1253.
Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 143840431X
One of the world's oldest recorded folktales tells the story of a handsome young man and the older woman in whose house he resides. Overcome by her feelings for him, the woman attempts to seduce him. When he turns her down she is enraged, and to her husband she accuses the young man of attacking her. The husband, seemingly convinced of his wife's innocence, has the young man punished. But it is precisely that punishment that leads to the hero's vindication and eventual rise to power and prominence. In the West we know this tale--classified in folklore as the Potiphar's Wife motif--from its vivid narration in the Hebrew Bible. But as Shalom Goldman demonstrates in this book, the Bible's is only one telling of a story that appears in the scriptures and folklore of many peoples and cultures, in many different eras, including ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and ancient Mesopotamia, as well as post-Biblical Jewish literature, the Qur'an, and Inuit culture. Goldman compares and contrasts the treatment of this motif especially in the literature and lore of the ancient Near East, Biblical Israel, and early Islam, at the same time touching on gender issues--the status of women in Middle Eastern societies and the varying constructions of male-female relationships--and the vexed question of "originality" in the narratives of the monotheistic traditions.
Author : Sindbad (el Filósofo.)
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1956
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Author : Shalom Goldman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791426838
Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif--in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her--in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore.
Author : Donna Elizabeth Boetig
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781884956027
This is the first book to specifically address how to write feature articles for women. It appeals to both active writers and journalists and those who are just beginning.
Author : David Selim Sayers
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,93 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Azerbaijani literature
ISBN : 9783447112871
The "wiles of women" are a timeless literary theme, treated from ancient Egyptian narratives to 21st-century TV series. The theme reaches its greatest flowering in the Islamic world, beginning with the Qur'an and inspiring entire literary traditions in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish. The Wiles of Women as a Literary Genre is the first study devoted to the Turkish branch of the tradition. The book consists of three parts: (a) a narrative analysis that helps to define the stories as a literary genre, (b) a cultural analysis exploring the worldview beneath the stories, and (c) transliterations and English translations of 17 previously unavailable stories in Ottoman and Azeri Turkish. The genre is colorful and heterogeneous, with different stories viewing the wiles of women as evil and dangerous, as frivolous and amusing, or as thoughtful and instructive. Still, women are depicted by all stories as intrinsically and incorrigibly guileful. The same does not hold for men, who are granted moral agency and the capacity to learn from their mistakes. The outcome is a world that serves as a testing ground for men, with women as obstacles or at best mediators between men and a virtuous life. But in spite of this rigid frame, many stories employ humor and ambiguity-for instance by casting men in guileful roles-to grant a more nuanced view of social and gender relations.
Author : Jean-Adolphe Decourdemanche
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Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,7 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Folklore
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Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Tales
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Author : Tikva Frymer-Kensky
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307490009
Reading the Women of the Bible takes up two of the most significant intellectual and religious issues of our day: the experiences of women in a patriarchal society and the relevance of the Bible to modern life.
Author : Salwá Bakr
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 21,78 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780292708006
"Here, finally, is some writing with a genuine purchase on things of worth. The collection of pithy short stories, filled with a sad wonder, tells of contemporary Egyptians . . . timorously rebelling against the conformism of life along the Nile." —Observer ". . . Bakr emerges as a fine observer of her country's times, with a vision which remains, for all its engagement, quirky and distinctively personal." — Times Literary Supplement Set among the poor of contemporary Cairo, these thirteen stories and one short novella tell of women struggling to provide themselves with the basic necessities of life. They explore the limits of self-awareness, the pressures to conform, and some of the strange paths to escape that women resort to in a conservative society shot through with social and sexual prejudice and preconceptions.