Abstract
This study aims at discussing in usages of Musk in fables of the Narrative of “One Thousand and One Night” (Alf Lailah Wa Lailah), and since most of fables provided in the Narrative are performed on imagination the perfumes were heading their vocabulary, for their connection with the psychological factors that form the movement of human beings. And employing musk had been strongly present in that narrative, and the narrative asserted on the people, who were employing musk were from the rich and luxurious class in the community, because of its high price, the matter that enhanced, in turn, at the author of the narrative to go on dyeing his fables related with the first class with the scent of musk to bestow upon them something of reality. This is in addition to looking at some usages of musk that were connected with myths and legends for the musk to be the ambassador between reality and imagination.
Highlights
Fables of (One Thousand and One Night” (Alf Lailah Wa Lailah) strech too far away to cover civilizations and cities established across history, because they are fables collected in them variant cultures, Arabic, Persian, Indian and Greek
Objective of Study: The study aims at shedding light on the perfume, Musk wherever it was provided in the Narrative, and discussing the perceptual usages, and it attempts to rise the cause of its choice rather than else, and this in turn works to disclose the secret sides of the human relations that was formed in persons of the narrative
When the narrative of (One Thousand and One Night) treated usages of musk by women, it desired to connect it with the luxurious of them, the news came talking about women of places and identical from women of the community, and had observed here from such narrations of luxurious women who were notified on men, so said one of the poets who met one of the palace women: “I stood up from my place and took the hand kerchief with me opened it so it smelled with fragrant musk, so I have got a great delight till I became as if I were in Paradise”... (One Thousand and One Night, Night 570, 1984). Another story talks about one of the Princes who awoke from his sleep and found one of them beside him: “So she moved beside him and found something standing erect beside him more righteous than musk and its body more tractable than butter so he wondered....”,...(One Thousand and One Night, Night 139, 1984). Another story with the same meaning “And I was the more I Joined her to my chest I smell from her the smell of musk and perfume, and I do not think except I was in paradise or I am in a paradise dream”. (Al-Sama’ani, 1962) and this urges us to say that the woman abundantly used this matter not for perfuming itself at the extent it has of moral value in attracting the attention of men who are attracted by those women.( Tannous, 2010)
Summary
Fables of (One Thousand and One Night” (Alf Lailah Wa Lailah) strech too far away to cover civilizations and cities established across history, because they are fables collected in them variant cultures, Arabic, Persian, Indian and Greek. The civilized inter- culturealization, among nations had a great role in making this narrative a distinguished work, branching cognitions and the intellectual trends, And since the perfume accompanied the travel of man since the whole creatures. The book of “One Thousand and One Night” is a group of stories and popular fables that tackled products of numerous cultures, Arabic, Persian, Egyptian, Indian and else. It had included numerous human stories connected with the man feelings from love, sophism, asceticism, and needs of the soul. The study will tackle: the definition of Musk, places of its existence, its economic significance, and group use it, its psychological usages, and women’s usage of it, and results deduced by the study
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