وظائف العجيب في حكايات من ألف ليلة و ليلة

Abstract EN

The amazing is considered as a method among methods representing the world in an imaginative artistic framework using all paradoxical elements of reality so as to create a new world.

It is a textual phenomenon related to discourse and a feature among narrative pronunciation features including in the structure of story by implementing as a narrative technique and an artistic element.

Thus, this research paper aims at determining the essence of amazing in “tales of a Thousand and one Nights” as well as stating different functions in the story so as to confirm at the end of the research that the amazing of nights exceeds the fact to be just a theme or a narrative technique; it is the core substance of the story.

This would let us wondering: “Is the amazing story with all its different functions able to tame the perverted power ( Shahrayar and orient it?