Abstract
This article studies the old part of the Arabian Nights as an example of an organized and intergrated collection of stories belonging to medieval Arabic literature. It examines the ways in which an ancient story of Indian origin, ‘The Ass, the Ox, the Farmer and His Wife’, and a story of ancient Near Eastern origin, ‘The Merchant and the Genie’, are imitated, reworked and recast in the Nights within the ideological context and literary tradition of medieval Islamo–Judaeo–Christian culture.
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