1.
The type of time that seems to mostly influence me and my class mates seems to be Stellar time, although I often try to live in the Teleological time, where I try to spend my days as planned and with some purpose in mind. However, I often end up distracted with what happens to me at any time. This is also demonstrated in the postings of my classmates on Twitter. We often plan to spend the weekend studying or working on assignments, but we end up doing something else. As far as the postings of my classmates, I can't say I was affected much by their tweets, but I found reading their thoughts enjoyable and was able to take something out of the information that some have posted or the resources that they shared such as some news stories or videos.
2.
In the reading, we actually get different stories within the main story. For example, the story about the woman and the Ifrit is part of the major storyline but is also a story of its own, about a woman taken by the Jinni and married to him and hidden in the bottom of the sea and one who cheats on the Jinni and collects the rings of those who she sleeps with. We also see this with the story of the daughter of the Wazir who is very smart and educated, and who is willing to sacrifice herself to save the rest of the girls of the kingdom. This reading seems like it is following Stellar time, where different people with different stories interrelate with one another to construct the major storyline.
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In most of the Islamic countries today, especially in those that are not a democracy, this story would not be received well. In a country like Saudi Arabia, which presently uses the Sharia, the story will probably be banned and the author or translator would be punished. These days, a number of countries with predominantly Muslim populations have seen fundamentalists getting empowered and influencing much of the countries' laws and traditions. And, I suspect they would use their influence to work against this story and the author if it is introduced in those countries. A recent controversy that would demonstrate this behavior would be the protests and anger that was raised a few years ago when a Danish news paper printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. So, this story would not be well received in Muslim countries.
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You have interesting thoughts about #3 but I kind of disagree. The tales in 1001 Nights are part of Islamic history and I am not sure they would ban it. Even though it is losing its' relevance to the modern world, you can’t disregard it as if it never happened.
Yes I agree with liudmila solovyeva comment. This store is part of the history in Arabic countries same think like mark twain writings in United States history. But about what happen few years ago in Danish news paper when it printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that is a different story. Let me ask you what you think would happen if an Arabic newspaper printed cartoons of Jesus Christ? How would Christian people react?
This is different from freedom of speech. You have to respect others religion, other wise you would have an unending war.
Actually Elias I think that the story of the Danish newspapers with the cartoons was very provocatory...People know by now how serious muslims are about their religion and using Mohammad as a cartoon is not very respectful..We all know religion is a very "hot" topic...and you can make fun of everything but god forbid..dont touch the religion..
Ahmad..I understand your point but I dont think war and religion should go together..I think God and his prophets are much more easy going than us humans:) We take everything so seriously...I think Mohammad or Jesus or Bhudda sometimes makes good laughs of us and the way we behave...and am sure they do not tollerate any wars in the name of religion...I really wished people had more fantasy and not just read everything in a literal way..
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