Studies on the history of the Arabian Nights and its influence upon the literary genesis of Orientalism

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Focusing on the cultural and social values of the Arabian Nights in the Arab-Islamic history, we have investigated an original form of this story collection in the Middle East through the excavation and arrangement of the manuscript material that lies scattered in the world, with the result that our discussion about the reception of the Arabian Nights in Europe and Japan and its re-introduction in the Middle East leads to the understanding of the formative mechanism of the mutual image between the civilizations.