You have to hand it to Shahrazad.\u00c2\u00a0 She tells one very compelling story.\u00c2\u00a0 And she does this by telling a story within a story within a story.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it.\u00c2\u00a0 The main story of The Arabian Nights,\u00c2\u00a0is her own.\u00c2\u00a0 She reminds us of this with some small word or phrase found within the text.\u00c2\u00a0 She then goes on to tell stories to King Shahryar. And in her stories, she had her characters tell stories to each other.\u00c2\u00a0 And so the stories and storytellers come full circle.
\nThe stories themselves deal with magic and things that would be outside the experiance of the average Muslim of the time period.\u00c2\u00a0 Now they most likely believed in things like magic and jinnis.\u00c2\u00a0 This was so that they would have something or someone to blame when the unexpected happened.
\nOne of my favorite stories so far is “The Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince.”\u00c2\u00a0 Which is told […]<\/p>\n
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