{"product_id":"relief-after-hardship-the-ottoman-turkish-model-for-the-thousand-and-one-days-hardcover","title":"Relief After Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUlrich Marzolph\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Days\u003c\/i\u003e, a companion collection to \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights, \u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1710-1712 by French Orientalist scholar François Pétis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Days\u003c\/i\u003e is actually the adapted translation of a fifteenth-century anonymous Ottoman Turkish compilation titled \u003ci\u003eRelief after Hardship\u003c\/i\u003e. This compilation, in turn, is the enlarged translation of an equally anonymous Persian collection of tales that likely dates back to as early as the thirteenth century. The tales in both the Ottoman Turkish and the Persian collections are mostly tales of the marvelous and the strange, a genre that dominated much of the narrative literatures of the pre-modern Muslim world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUlrich Marzolph's \u003ci\u003eRelief after Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for \u003c\/i\u003eThe Thousand and One Days is a detailed assessment of the Ottoman Turkish compilation and its Persian precursor. Based upon Andreas Tietze's unpublished German translation of the Ottoman Turkish\u003ci\u003e Ferec ba'd es-sidde\u003c\/i\u003e, it traces the origins of the collection's various tales in the pre-modern Persian and Arabic literatures and its impact on Middle Eastern and world tradition and folklore. Ottoman Turkish literature proves to be a suitable candidate for the transmission of tales from East to West long before the European translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. Additionally, the concept of \"relief after hardship\" has the same basic structure as the European fairy tale, wherein the protagonist undergoes a series of trials and tribulations before he attains a betterment of his status. Marzolph contends that the early reception of these tales from Muslim narrative tradition might well have had an inspiring impact on the nascent genre of the European fairy tale that has come to know international success today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fascinating compilation of tales is being presented for the first time to an English language audience along with a comprehensive survey of its history, as well as detailed summaries and extensive comparative annotations to the tales that will be of interest to literature and folklore scholars.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August University in G?ttingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board of the \u003ci\u003eEnzyklop?die des M?rchens\u003c\/i\u003e (1986-2015), he is now conducting a research project studying the impact of narratives from the Muslim Middle East on Western tradition. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2006) and \u003ci\u003eThe Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e (Wayne State University Press, 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757801931040,"sku":"9780814342770","price":80.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/63c88b4b54b9889d3c4117e47d737a45.webp?v=1780112159","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/relief-after-hardship-the-ottoman-turkish-model-for-the-thousand-and-one-days-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}