التمهيد السردي في ألف ليلة و ليلة

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The Narrative Introductory in "The Thousand and One Nights"
This study deals with the book "One Thousand and One Nights", which is one of the most popular books in our Arab heritage.

One of the most important features of this book is the reproduction of the narration within the work, which is achieved through the containment of each story with another story that contains a third story in turn, so it is a series of coherent episodes stories.

Many critics in the contemporary time studied the book, but there was no clear interest in studying the sequence of stories, since the most prominent technique adopted in these stories was called the narrative prologue.

For this purpose, there was a need for a study that is dedicated for the narrative introductory, which means: the connection or link contained in the conclusion of each story to be set to join the following story, as well as awareness of the mechanisms and techniques that lead to the transition from one story to the next one.

The study attempted to answer number of important questions, the most prominent of which is: What is the narrative introductory? Is there in the conclusion of each one of the stories of a thousand nights and nights an introductory linking it to the next one? How is the process of linking stories together? Are some stories lack this Introductory? And what sort of that introductory?
This study has reached several results, the most important the narrative introductory which has six types, some of which is recurring in the blog thoroughly, and some of them appear once only, these types of introductory were arranged according to the large number of their occurrence in the blog, the first and most emerging is: direct introductory, followed by a question introductory, a simple introductory, a combined introductory and last but not least a story introductory.

The least emerging is the introductory of stories exchange.