In The Great Khan’s Tent is now a year old!

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In the second of our One Year Specials, in the first part we examine the early history of the Abbasid Caliphate and examine the perceptions of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid especially regarding who would be his successor to him and why his perceptions within the story cycle of the Porter and of the Three Apples differs so widely. In the second part, we continue the examination of possible South Asian fonts of inspiration for the One Thousand and One Nights by examining the last two of the four indicated by Robert Irwin in his work The Arabian Nights: A Companion, the Katha Sarit Sagara and the Sukasaptati.

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