The Story of Anas al-Wujūd: Nineteenth-century verse recensions of an Arabian Nights tale in Egyptian colloquial Arabic

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The Story of Anas al-Wujūd: Nineteenth-century verse recensions of an Arabian Nights tale in Egyptian colloquial Arabic

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Description

This book presents seven parallel versions of a story from the Arabian Nights. The texts are an important source for the study of vernacular Arabic, and for the history and development of popular literature in Egypt around the turn of the nineteenth century. Text in Arabic, with an introduction and preliminary notes in English.

ISBN

9781940997186

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

Faenum Publishing

City

Oxford, OH

Keywords

Historical Linguistics, Arabic Literature, Arabic Language and Linguistics, Orality-Literacy Studies, Egyptian Arabic, Arabic Language, Oral literature, Arabian Nights, 1001 Nights, The Thousand and One Nights

Disciplines

Arabic Language and Literature

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