In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VII: The Arabian Nights Part VI
12/07/22 • 44 min
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In this episode, we continue with the story of “The Porter, The Three Ladies of Baghdad, and the Three Dervishes: with Night IX, Night X, and the beginning of Night XI. We also begin to learn more about the three Dervishes with the beginning of the first Dervish’s story “The Story of the First Royal Dervish” in Night XI. This section of the One Thousand and One Nights also marks the first appearance of Harun al-Rashid, Jafar, and the executioner Mansur and we will continue to encounter them in one form or another from now on. This episode, much like the last episode, also continues the scientific wording referring to bodily anatomy.
In this episode, we continue with the story of “The Porter, The Three Ladies of Baghdad, and the Three Dervishes: with Night IX, Night X, and the beginning of Night XI. We also begin to learn more about the three Dervishes with the beginning of the first Dervish’s story “The Story of the First Royal Dervish” in Night XI. This section of the One Thousand and One Nights also marks the first appearance of Harun al-Rashid, Jafar, and the executioner Mansur and we will continue to encounter them in one form or another from now on. This episode, much like the last episode, also continues the scientific wording referring to bodily anatomy.
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VI: The Arabian Nights Part V
In this episode, we finally reach the end of the story of the Fisherman and the Jinn with Night VIII and Night IX. Within Night IX, we also begin one of the popular stories in the Arabian Nights, that of “The Porter, The Three Ladies of Baghdad, and The Three Dervishes”. Here we also encounter the first scientific wording which refers to bodily anatomy. We also begin to see more references to the Abbasid Caliphate, which will continue within this story as we go along.
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VIII: The Arabian Nights Part VII
In this episode, we continue the story of “The First Royal Dervish” in the continuation of Night XI, Night XII, and part of Night XIII. We also hear part of the story of “The Second Royal Dervish” and encounter the Jinn once again. However, unlike previous episodes this time the Jinn is named, Jarjaris, and given a lineage which links him to Iblis, commonly known as Satan, providing evidence for the Islamic belief that Iblis was allowed to procreate. Jarjaris clearly is placed in the category of those Jinn who are unbelievers. Notice the themes that are present in both these stories and what social issues they are trying to convey, aside from the surface level interpretations.
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