Tūdūr Trouble in 1001 Nights

This article presents a case study of the Arabic version of the 1001 Nights story of the enslaved scholarly maiden—found in the thirteenth-century manuscript held at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, Gayangos 71—exploring the tale's immediate translation networks. It argues (1) that translation needs to be viewed as a form of renovation, and (2) that translated premodern texts can both illuminate and be illuminated by twenty-first-century postcolonial studies. Forms of decolonial praxis emerge with the dynamics of premodern translations across cultures and centuries

Arabic · Dynamics (music · Postcolonialism (international relations · Praxis · Translation studies · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · Geological and Geophysical Studies · Geological Modeling and Analysis