Drower's Folk-Tales of Iraq
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Drower's Folk-Tales of Iraq

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Drower's Folk-Tales of Iraq

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A collection of folktales from Iraq, dating from the 1930s, found in the archives of the famous English Lady E. S. Drower (1879–1972), who was novelist, folklorist, specialist on the Mandaeans, and writer of travel accounts. New tales edited by Jorunn Buckley form a second volume of Drower's Folktales. The stories—carrying recognizable Near Eastern folk-tale features—feature monsters and heroes, maidens and fairies and they give a vivid picture of a now extinct oral folktale tradition. This Gorgias Press edition includes previously unpublished tales in addition to those of the 1931 edition.

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Information

Publisher
Gorgias Press
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9781463211011
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. List Of Plates
  5. Note On Transliteration
  6. I. The Crazy Woman
  7. II. The Goat and the Old Woman
  8. III. Three Little Mice
  9. IV. The Sparrow and his Wife
  10. V. Dungara Khsheybān
  11. VI. The Crystal Ship
  12. VII. The Old Couple and their Goat
  13. VIII. Shamshūm al Jabbār
  14. IX. Husain an Nim-Nim
  15. X. The Blackbeetle who Wished to get Married
  16. XI. The Thorn-seller
  17. XII. The Blind Sultan
  18. XIII. Jarāda
  19. XIV. The Stork and the Jackal
  20. XV. 'It is not the Lion's Fur Coat!'
  21. XVI. Two stories of Abu Nowās
  22. XVII. A story of the Khalīfa Hārūn ar Rashīd
  23. XVIII. Another story of the Khalīfa
  24. XIX. The Tricks of Jānn
  25. XX. It was Enough to bewilder the Lion
  26. XXI. Two Nursery Rhymes
  27. XXII. The Bitter Orange
  28. XXIII. Tale told by a Shammar Tribesman
  29. XXIV. Shammar Stories. I
  30. XXV. Shammar Stories. II
  31. XXVI. Shammar Stories. III
  32. XXVII. Hājir
  33. XXVIII. The Woman of the Well
  34. XXIX. Hasan the Thief
  35. XXX. Moses and the Two Men
  36. XXXI. Al Gumeyra (Little Moon)
  37. XXXII. The Three Dervishes and the Wonderful Lamp
  38. XXXIII. The King and the Three Maidens, or the Doll of Patience
  39. XXXIV. The Merchant's Daughter
  40. XXXV. Wudayya (Little White Shell)
  41. XXXVI. The Poor Girl and Her Cow
  42. XXXVII. The Prince and the Daughter of the Thorn-seller
  43. XXXVIII. Uhdeydān, Uch'eybān, and Unkheylān
  44. XXXIX. Melek Muhammad and the Ogre
  45. XL. Er Rūm
  46. XLI. The Cotton-carder and Kasilūn
  47. XLII. Bunayya
  48. XLIII. The Cat
  49. XLIV. The Fish that Laughed
  50. XLV. The Honest Man
  51. XLVI. The Generous Man and the Niggardly Man
  52. XLVII. The Boy and the Deyus
  53. XLVIII. The Shepherd and his Brother
  54. Notes
  55. Part II
  56. Table of Contents
  57. Preface
  58. Acknowledgments
  59. 1. The Story Of The Khalifa And The Three Maidens
  60. 2. The Valiant Shepherd, Or The Chinese Egg
  61. 3. The Adventures Of Sultan Mahmud's Youngest Son
  62. 4. Harun Al-Rashid And The Poor Man's Daughter
  63. 5. The Arabi Boy
  64. 6. The Loves Of Ahmad Sultan And Tar Aswar
  65. 7. The Sardines
  66. 8. The Coppersmith And The Jinni
  67. 9. The Story Of The Avaricious Man
  68. 10. The Story Of The Fisherman And The Sultan
  69. 11. The Story Of The Jackal Who Turned Hajji (Pilgrim To Mecca)
  70. 12. Juj And Majuj (Gog And Magog)
  71. 13. The Story Of Hasan Al-Basri
  72. 14. The Girl And The Rat
  73. 15. How The All-Powerful Yielded A Hundredfold
  74. 16. The Appearance Of The White Cat
  75. 17. Allah Maku (There Is No God)
  76. 18. The Faithful Slave
  77. 19. The Lion And The Jackal
  78. 20. How Heskel Was Possessed By A Jewish Demon
  79. 21. Lokman
  80. 22. The Black Cat
  81. 23. The Story Of Budur
  82. Bibliography