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Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography
This thesis argues that The Thousand and One Nights functions as more than mere populist entertainment; rather, it constitutes a literary corpus imbued with Sufi mystical epistemologies that reflect the spiritual quests and Sufi concepts evident in hagiographical traditions. Through discourse and in...
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| description | This thesis argues that The Thousand and One Nights functions as more than mere populist entertainment; rather, it constitutes a literary corpus imbued with Sufi mystical epistemologies that reflect the spiritual quests and Sufi concepts evident in hagiographical traditions. Through discourse and intertextual analysis of two Nights stories, “The City of Brass” and “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad,” alongside Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ, this study demonstrates how shared rhetorical strategies—specifically David Pinault’s Leitwörter analysis and L.A. Paul’s Transformative Experience concept—reveal a narrative and rhetorical emphasis on the metamorphosis of the self from worldly attachment toward divine proximity. In so doing, the Nights emerges as a fertile ground for tracing the imaginative contours of Islamic mysticism and its emphasis on spiritual transformation through storytelling. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3714 Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography Kamel, Walaa Kamal Emam This thesis argues that The Thousand and One Nights functions as more than mere populist entertainment; rather, it constitutes a literary corpus imbued with Sufi mystical epistemologies that reflect the spiritual quests and Sufi concepts evident in hagiographical traditions. Through discourse and intertextual analysis of two Nights stories, “The City of Brass” and “The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad,” alongside Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ, this study demonstrates how shared rhetorical strategies—specifically David Pinault’s Leitwörter analysis and L.A. Paul’s Transformative Experience concept—reveal a narrative and rhetorical emphasis on the metamorphosis of the self from worldly attachment toward divine proximity. In so doing, the Nights emerges as a fertile ground for tracing the imaginative contours of Islamic mysticism and its emphasis on spiritual transformation through storytelling. 2026-02-15T08:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2656 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3714/viewcontent/Walaa_Kamal_Emam_thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain Thousand and One Nights Sufism Hagiography Transformation Sufi Hagiography Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Classical Literature and Philology Epistemology Fiction Islamic Studies Islamic World and Near East History Language Interpretation and Translation Medieval History Medieval Studies Nonfiction Oral History Other Arts and Humanities Other Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Theory and Criticism |
| spellingShingle | Thousand and One Nights Sufism Hagiography Transformation Sufi Hagiography Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Classical Literature and Philology Epistemology Fiction Islamic Studies Islamic World and Near East History Language Interpretation and Translation Medieval History Medieval Studies Nonfiction Oral History Other Arts and Humanities Other Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Theory and Criticism Kamel, Walaa Kamal Emam Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title | Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title_full | Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title_fullStr | Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title_full_unstemmed | Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title_short | Parallel Concepts Found in The Thousand and One Nights and Sufi Hagiography |
| title_sort | parallel concepts found in the thousand and one nights and sufi hagiography |
| topic | Thousand and One Nights Sufism Hagiography Transformation Sufi Hagiography Arabic Language and Literature Arabic Studies Classical Literature and Philology Epistemology Fiction Islamic Studies Islamic World and Near East History Language Interpretation and Translation Medieval History Medieval Studies Nonfiction Oral History Other Arts and Humanities Other Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric Theory and Criticism |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2656 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3714/viewcontent/Walaa_Kamal_Emam_thesis.pdf |
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