Motivated fictionality: Worldbuilding and The Thousand and One Nights

Abstract Inundated with visions of domed desert kingdoms, tyrant kings, flying carpets, and shapeshifting jinn, the visual vocabulary that has come to be associated with The Thousand and One Nights can be traced back to the earliest illustrated translations of the stories, one of the fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soltan, Meriam
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146190