Literary style and narrative technique in the Arabian nights / by David Beaumont -- Situation, motivation, and action in the Arabian nights / by Aboubakr Chraïbi -- The oral connections of the Arabian nights / by Hasan El-Shamy -- Poetry and the Arabian nights / by Geert Jan Van Gelder -- The manuscript tradition of the Arabian nights / by Heinz Grotzfeld -- The Arabian nights in film adaptations / by Robert Irwin -- The Arabian nights as an orientalist text / by Rana Kabbani -- Illustrations to the Arabian nights / by Kazue Kobayashi -- The Arabian nights and the popular epics / by Remke Kruk -- Homosexuality, heterosexuality, and Shahrazâd / by Dedwa Malti-Douglas -- The Arabian nights and the Jews / by Joseph Sadan -- Images of masculinity in the Arabian nights / by Reinhard Schulze -- Social life and popular culture in the Arabian nights / by Boaz Shoshan -- Modern Arabic literature and the Arabian nights / by Wiebke Walther -- The phenomenon of the Arabian night -- The world of the Arabian Nights -- Appendixes.