A new book was published on the historical context of the 1001 Nights in Abbasid Baghdad. It is in Arabic (الذاكرة الشعبية لمجتمعات ألف ليلة وليلة) and has been given the English title of The Popular Memory of the Societies of the Thousand and One Nights.
More information below:
From http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/:
"Columbia University Professor Muhsin al-Musawi's latest book, The Popular Memory of the Societies of the Thousand and One Nights, is published by Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi press.
The book expounds on and develops al-Musawi's early research on and criticism of the social and cultural aspect of medieval and Abbasid life, and discusses the nature of narrative techniques that evolved then in relation to poetry, historiography, geography, topography, and the akhbar genre. Please have a look at the front and back covers for more information."
From al-Musawi:
"The Popular Memory of the Societies of the Thousand and One Nights (Beirut: Al-Markaz al-Thaqafi al-Arabi, 2016), 600pp. ISBN 978-9953-68-808-4.
The
book expands on and develops my early research on and criticism of
the social and cultural aspect of medieval and Abbasid life, and
discusses the nature of narrative techniques that evolved then in
relation to poetry, historiography, geography, topography, and the akhbar genre."
Here is the cover and back page:
