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Robin Yassin-Kassab travels to the most northerly mosque in Scotland, Jeremey Henzell-Thomas confesses his affection for all things Scottish, Leila Aboulela identifies three Scotts who influenced her novels, Saqib Razzaq outlines the Muslim heritage of Scotland, Nayab Khalid tries to save the Scottish environment, Arusa Qureshi falls in love with hip hop, Kirsty MacDougall attempts to revive Gaelic language and culture, Robin Ade goes finishing, Alycia Pirmohamed meanders around Scottish coastline, James Brooks sits through the films of Ken Loach, William Holmes (Mohammad Ameen) paints the Galloway uplands, and our list of ten Scottish things.

Also in this issue: John O’Donoghue reads a refreshing novel about refugees, Abdullah Geelah is impressed by Todd Webb’s photographs of Africa, Steve Noyes shifts through five Muslim memoirs, short stories by Shah Tazrian Ashrafi and Parand, poems by Zahra Wadia, Deema K Shehabi, and David Pollard, Mishal Saif’s analysis of blasphemy in Pakistan, and Amandla Thomas-Johnson’s American Diary. 

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  The Arabian Nights (or the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights Entertainments—there are so many versions) constitute, in Marina Warner’s words, “a polyvocal anthology of world myths, fables, and fairy tales.” The antecedents of these Arab-Islamic texts are Quranic, Biblical, Indian, Persian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Turkish, and Egyptian. In them, oral and written traditions, poetry and prose, demotic folk tales and courtly high culture mutate and interpenetrate. In their long lifetime the Nights have influenced, amongst many others, Flaubert, Wilde, Marquez, Mahfouz, Elias Khoury, Douglas Fairbanks, and the Ballets Russes.

  The frame story, in which Shahrazad saves her life by telling King Shahryar tall tales, is only one such ransom. More than simple entertainment, then: throughout these stories within stories, and stories about stories, and stories metamorphosing like viruses, endlessly generative, narrative even claims for itself the power to defer death.

  Although oral versions of the Nights had long percolated through Europe (elements turning up in Chaucer, Ariosto, Dante, Shakespeare), the tales were established in the mainstream of European popular and literary culture with Galland’s early 18th century Fr

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