A rich and nuanced study of the Arabian Nights in world cultures, analysing the celebration, appropriation, and translation of the stories over time.
Muhsin J. al-Musawi is Professor of classical and modern Arabic literature, comparative and cultural studies at Columbia University in New York. He is the editor of the Journal of Arabic Literature and the recipient of the Owais Award in Literary Criticism in 2002, and the Kuwait Prize in Arabic language and literature in 2018. He is the author and editor of numerous books including, The Postcolonial Arabic Novel: Debating Ambivalence (2003), Arabic Poetry: Trajectories of Modernity and Tradition (2006), Reading Iraq: Culture and Power in Conflict (2006), Arabic Literary Thresholds: Sites of Rhetorical Turn in Contemporary Scholarship (2009), The Islamic Context of the Thousand and One Nights, The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge Construction, and Islam on the Street: Religion in Arabic Literature (2009), winner of 'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title in 2010.
