What's a good source for MENA folktales, myths and legends?It sort of just occurred to me that the only MENA stories I know are the Thousand and One Nights.
Have you heard of a special little set of stories called the Hadiths? Well...
>>216047539Isn't that Muslim shit?I'm not talking about religious stuff. Not even if it involves the Prophet Muhammad being fucked in the ass by jeets.
>>216047539Lol
>>216047516The Thousand and One Nights are full of interracial cuckolding unironically. It's even the premise of the frame narrative
>>216047516>>216047615biblical stories are based on middle eastern mythology
>>216047516Sinbad the sailor is pretty cool, it's kinda similar to the odyssey.>>216048189cuckolding is a porn term which imply the guy is into being cheated on, which is not what happens in the taleit's more about women will be unfaithful even if you keep her locked in a box under the sea
>>216047516>MENA folktales,not recorded until france conquered north africa due to islamic clerks avoiding them and few have been recorded in the original berber too
>>216047516Poetry was the most common form of storytelling, at least for Arabic MENALook into maqamat
>>216047516Both 1001 nights and kalilah wa dimnah are recollections of indo-persian tales so i'd completely put them aside. They're also morally rotten stories about stealing, cheating, deceiving people etcشمس المعارف is not that bad when it comes to myths and legends, it's what inspired the necronomiconLook into عنترة بن شداد and pre-islamic معلقات poets, those are the most kino. A lot of folks and mythological creatures are still only preserved orally, in morocco we have هاينة which is kinda our version of baba yaga/little red hood but i dont think it's ever been written down
>>216049074>morally rotten stories about stealing, cheating, deceiving people etcStories that don't try to censor the human experience are the most interesting.
>>216049310Then الجاحظ works are what you're looking forIt's not just the presentation but i doubt the authors (1001 nights is a compilation, remember) wanted you to see the actions in disgusts seeing how the texts read, the same way marquis de sade doesn't give any clear moral besides "exposing" human nature
I hate that most of the mena/near east posters here are retarded trannies and not even the good kind, who'd be proud/interested in their culture prior to getting islamized. They're all mcdonalds munching diet coke whores.
>>216050296Not mutually exclusive
The Arabian Nights has a story about a king getting cucked by a fat black slave with leprosy
>>216050296https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9cvnU2iNkcThis was a cool videoI wish more was preserved
>>216050551Thanks, will watch. Believe it or not, there was a Iraqi poster here that used to restore old assyrian and stuff. I wonder if he got the axe after the regime change, was a christian.
>>216050296Mind your business jeetie chan
>>216049074Most European folklore also accepts the fact people steal, lie and women will inevitably cheat. If anything such tales from MENA are better than your current facade of decency and eternal loyalty.
