The convincing memory in One Thousand and One Nights

The neighbors continue in this new book their excavation of the issues of memory, which they have outlined in their foundational book "Memory in Narrative" published by Dar Al-Kitab Al-Jadid Al-Muttahida. And their new work turns to question the cognitive memory that mediates between us and the "nights," stripping it of the cunning of its familiarity, forcing it to reconsider the understandings entrenched within it regarding it, whether those prevalent in modern Arab critical thought or those adopted by Western thought as avenues to access the world of night stories and decipher their mysteries. With this intellectual act, they change the convictions that accompanied the study of the night text, revealing how lax they are towards it, and how they have robbed it of its authentic spirit, especially the misunderstanding caused against the story—the frame. The memory of "the nights" is not merely a spark of pleasure or a moral conscience awakening from its slumber, but more than that, it is also the memory of time. Here lies its testament, which at every reading tends to make itself a promise to save forgetfulness from its harms, and to save the memory of the night text by excavating its roots through resurrecting it from the ashes of the Arab narrative archive.