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Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
Arab Folktales by Inea Bushnaq
Abu Jmeel's Daughter & Other Stories: Arab Folk Tales from Palestine and Lebanon (International by Jamal Salim Nuwayhid
The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Arabian Nights : Three Tales by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights by W. Heath Robinson
Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales by Ibrahim Muhawi
Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves & Other Stories by Outlet
Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights by Gustaf Tenggren
Folk Traditions of the Arab World: A Guide to Motif Classification by Hasan M. El-Shamy
The Adventures of Sayf Ben Dhi Yazan: An Arab Folk Epic (Prota Book) by Lena Jayyusi
Disney's Aladdin (A Big Golden Book) by Karen Kreider
Arabian Nights : Childrens Classics by Rene Bull
ARABIC FOLKTALES by Inea Bushnaq
Palestinian Refugees: Mythology, Identity, and the Search for Peace by Robert Bowker
Arab mythology
This article discusses Arab mythology prior to the arrival of Islam.
Prior to the arrival and inital codification of Islam on the Arabian Peninsula in 622 CE (or year one of the Islamic calendar) the Kaaba of Makkah, physical centre of Islam did not hold the single symbol of "the God" as it does now. The Kaaba was instead covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods and other assorted creatures which represented the profoundly polytheistic environment of pre-Islamic Arabia. We can infer from this plurality an exceptionally broad context in which mythology could flourish.
The West has been exposed to the mythology of the region -- albeit one packaged for its tastes -- in the Arabian Nights. In these tales there is an initial taste of the mythology of the pre-Islamic Arabian peninsula. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Sinbad and the other tales in Arabian Nights are all stories containing echoes of pre-Islamic mythology.
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