What elements of the story appear Islamic, and what elements UN-Islamic?What can we learn about science in the Abbasid era?
In the envelope narrative, Shah, a Persian king ruling in India and China embittered by his wife’s infidelity kills her and resolves to sleep with a virgin every night and kill her in the morning. The two stories here recount the tale of King Yunnan , his physician Durban, and the king’s evil wazoo. The […]