HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sinbad The Sailor
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Stable institutional govt, peace & security (national army, law courts & police) Laws and courts to decide instead of battles. Shared religion -- pro helping travelers, pro business. Islamic region became a mediator for western europe. Trading from china through the region all the way to europe. Exchange of ideas (intellectual boom of sciences and philosophy) Number of great mosques built in this era. Influenced by roman catholic structures of slim columns. Sindbad tales = popular culture, not high culture; Oral transmission; no definitive version, no fixed text, no single author. Translated to arabic = basis for 1001 nights. Still is a persian frame; uses persian names. Set in baghdad, in time of haroun ar-rashid (~200-300 yrs ago, idealized era) Sindbad - sanksrit, inhabitant of the indus region . Well first of all elephants don"t live in baghdad or persia; they live in india. Some of the voyages are in real places, some are not in real places.
