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This study examines the unheimlich themes Freud defines in his essay "The 'Uncanny'" and asks if an unconscious presence of home links the tales in the Arabian Nights to the frame-story. If so, how is this curative? Previous scholarship tends to emphasize the spectacular and adv…

Whereas the study of the genre of early Arabic adab literature known as "Mirror for Princes" (Mirror ) is usually limited to illuminating political ideas surrounding early leadership in Islamic societies, The Thousand Nights and One Night ( Nights ), in comparison, is rarely con…