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WARRIOR WOMEN IN ARABIC POPULAR ROMANCE: QANNÂSA BINT MUZÂHIM AND OTHER VALIANT LADIES PART ONE One of the misconceptions about medieval Arabic popular fiction one occasionally comes across is that the role of women in popular Arabic storytelling is almost exclusively confined to either that of the coquettish, sensuous, often wily and amoral young beauty, or that of the vile old hag bent on destruction. Although scholarly research has long since amended this picture we still find such views lingering on. For many people Arabic popular fiction still means the Arabian Nights; but even these bear ample testimony to the contrary, as for instance Walther (1982) has pointed out. Among the various types of female protagonists of a different character that may be encountered in Arabic popular fiction there is one in par- ticular that deserves attention, especially since, on closer inspection, she turns out to be one of the stock characters of Arabic popular literature. This is the gallant female warrior, who turns up in a number of different forms. My aim here is to see how this widespread theme of folklore the world over is dealt with in traditional Arabic storytelling, in order to find out
Journal of Arabic Literature – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1993
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