{"id":13863,"date":"2014-11-30T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13863"},"modified":"2014-11-30T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T16:30:33","slug":"tales-of-the-marvellous-and-news-of-the-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/tales-of-the-marvellous-and-news-of-the-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest Arabic tales of the weird, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2OwxYON\">Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange<\/a><\/em>, published in English for the first time.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;it lay unread and gathering dust, a ragged manuscript that no one even knew existed, until 1933 when Hellmut Ritter, a German Orientalist, stumbled across it and translated it into his mother tongue. An Arabic edition was belatedly printed in 1956.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The stories&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>dealt with all things that challenged human understanding, including magic, the realms of the <em>jinn<\/em>, marvels of the sea, strange fauna and flora, great monuments of the past, automatons, hidden treasures, grotesqueries and uncanny coincidences.  &#8230; The sheer mad inventiveness of &#8220;The Story of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle&#8221;, with its jumbling of Muslim, Christian and pagan beliefs and rituals would take some beating. Here we have a mechanical vulture, visionary dreams, conversation with a pagan god, magical transformations, thrones of wrath and of mercy, an enchanted gazelle, a herder of giant ostriches, lustful <em>jinn<\/em>, speaking idols, a queen of the crows, a weeping lion, a fortress guarded by talismans, a crocodile with pearls in its ears, the sacrifice of virgins to the Nile and much else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The hardcover seems to have sold out, but a Kindle edition is available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/reiniger-achmed30-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/reiniger-achmed30-big.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"Reiniger-achmed30-big\" width=\"529\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13867\" \/><\/a>Still from Reiniger&#8217;s <em>Achmed<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest Arabic tales of the weird, Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange, published in English for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/11\/30\/tales-of-the-marvellous-and-news-of-the-strange\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}