About the Author

Ulrich Marzolph is professor of Islamic Studies at the Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, and a senior member of the editorial committee of the Enzyklopadie des Marchens, an international handbook of comparative folk narrative research. He is the editor of The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006).

Reviews

All of the articles are interesting and well-organized, and as a whole they avoid tedious duplication. One of the recurrent findings of recent studies of the Arabian Nights is that this collection often inspires its compilers, translators, and even scholars to participate in its tradition by improving, elaborating, retelling, or adding new material. Its powers of inspiration are evident in this collection of scholarship as well."-- "Journal of Folklore Research"

This volume of nineteen essays is a noteworthy and fascinating contribution to our understanding of the Arabian Nights and its cross-cultural history and influence. The essays are insightful and illuminating, and the collection itself is a valuable addition to the comparative study of literary translation and the intra- and intercultural responses that it provokes. The editor and authors are to be congratulated."--Peter Heath "provost of the American University of Beirut"