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In The Arab Thieves , Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on ‘Arab Thieves’ in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrīzī’s text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrīzī used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.

Outlaws --- Arabic literature --- Outlaws in literature. --- Tales --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Bandits --- Criminals --- Brigands and robbers --- Outcasts --- History and criticism. --- Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, --- Arabian Peninsula --- Arabia --- History --- Historiography.

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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary tools of psychoanalysis and folklore while also providing historical context to explore the harsher aspects of these stories, presenting new interpretations of tales that engage in a kind of cultural repetition compulsion. No other book so thoroughly challenges us to rethink the happily-ever-after of these classic stories.

Fairy tales --- Grimm, Wilhelm, --- Grimm, Jacob, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Germany. --- Allusion. --- Anecdote. --- Angela Carter. --- Bleak House. --- Bluebeard. --- Bobbin. --- Briar Rose (novel). --- Brothers Grimm. --- Bruno Bettelheim. --- Cannibalism. --- Cautionary tale. --- Charles Dickens. --- Charles Perrault. --- Child abandonment. --- Child abuse. --- Children's literature. --- Cinderella. --- Coffin. --- Criticism. --- Crone. --- Cruelty. --- Decapitation. --- Disenchantment. --- Dorothea Viehmann. --- Electra complex. --- Evil Queen (Disney). --- Fable. --- Fairy tale. --- Fiction. --- Fledgling (novel). --- Folk and Fairy Tales. --- Folklore. --- Giambattista Basile. --- Golden Hair (fairy tale). --- Grimms' Fairy Tales. --- Hans My Hedgehog. --- Hansel and Gretel. --- Household. --- Humiliation. --- Illustration. --- In the Woods. --- Incest. --- Infanticide. --- Italian Folktales. --- Italo Calvino. --- Jack Zipes. --- Jacob Grimm. --- King Thrushbeard. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Little Red Riding Hood. --- Ludwig Bechstein. --- Mary's Child. --- Melodrama. --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Mother. --- Mutilation. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Nuclear family. --- Oral tradition. --- Pentamerone. --- Philology. --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Potion. --- Prose. --- Protagonist. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Queen (Snow White). --- Random House. --- Rumpelstiltskin. --- Russian fairy tale. --- Seven Dwarfs. --- Sibling. --- Simpleton (stock character). --- Stepfamily. --- Stepmother. --- Stith Thompson. --- Storytelling. --- Suckling pig. --- Susan Gubar. --- Tall tale. --- The Devil and his Grandmother. --- The Girl Without Hands. --- The Goose Girl. --- The Juniper Tree (fairy tale). --- The Madwoman in the Attic. --- The Old Witch. --- The Telling. --- The Three Spinners. --- The True Bride. --- The Two Brothers. --- The Uses of Enchantment. --- The Various. --- To the Wedding. --- Trickster. --- Vladimir Propp. --- W. H. Auden. --- Wilhelm Grimm.