¶ … Empowerment of and Prejudice against Women in Tales from the 1001 Nights
The famous legendary tale of Tales from the 1001 Nights illustrates the life of Muslims in the context of different social issues plaguing the Islamic society. Tales consists of a thousand tales narrated over a thousand nights by a woman named Sharazad, in order to divert the King Shahriyar's attention from exploiting and killing more virgin women. The tales narrated by Sharazad shows the nature of relationship between men and women, and how each can be seen as conflicting members of the Islamic community. The focus of this paper centers in particular the status of women in the Islamic society, wherein they are both portrayed as empowered and prejudiced members of the society.
Three important tales illustrate the status of women as both empowered and oppressed members of the society. The Introduction or Prologue to the Tales from 1001 Nights provide a general background of the main problem that prompted the telling of the tales for 1001 nights; this story is the story of the King Shahriyar and Sharazad. The two other tales that illustrate the other side, that is, the empowered status of women, is particularly depicted in "The Tale of Bakbook, the Barber's First Brother" and "The Tale of Al-Haddar, the Barber's Second Brother." These tales depict the life of men and women in Islam, how an intolerant Islam society illustrates (through the tales' narrative) the unfair treatment of women to men and vice versa, and how these conflicts are resolved with religious undertones, with forgiveness and mercy as the main values illustrated and used as the moral for each story.
The first tale, that of Sharazad, the protagonist of the main story in the Tales, illustrates the origin of the conflict that would be reflected throughout the story (with the tales). King Shahriyar is portrayed as the king...
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