Article2005

Juhā in the Arabian Nights

20 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Arabic Literature

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

Abstract

Abstract In his description of the nineteenth-century Madrid manuscript of the Arabian Nights, Duncan B. MacDonald states that there is no good reason why Juhā, the famous trickster character of the Arab world, should not appear in the Nights. The present essay evaluates this statement by surveying various occurrences of Juhā in texts related to the Nights, including the Mardrus translation (vol. 15, published in 1904) and the manuscript Taimūriyya qisas 15 (dating from the sixteenth century). A thorough analysis of the Juhā anecdote as integrated into the Madrid manuscript leads to the conclusion that the occurrence of Juhā in that manuscript is a singular phenomenon.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.