Centuries of fascination for ‘The One Thousand and One Nights’ were examined by two winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award this weekend, touching on contemporary interpretation and challenges.
A detail from the cover of Richard van Leeuwen’s ‘The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings.’ Image: Brill
‘Part of the DNA of Western Literature’
The two most recent winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Arabic Culture in Other Languages category on Sunday (February 7) talked about the singular place of
The Thousand and One Nights in literature and wider culture.
On hand was Richard van Leeuwen, a senior lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Amsterdam and author of several books on