The collapse of reality in stories: Juhayman legends as a model

The author explains in this book that stories and tales have a long history in the life and culture of the society of the Arabian Peninsula, and some of them are among the genres called legend or fairy tale. The emergence and creativity of these genres are linked to religious and cultural life within literary works. The author details these matters to clarify that the naming of Al-Juhaiman's stories, which he collected from people in the middle of the Arabian Peninsula, is a mixture of fairy tales and folk tales. The author also clarifies that the cultural life of the central Arabian region was influenced by Islamic values and concepts. Among the contents of this book: the first chapter — a historical approach, environment and population, religions and beliefs; the second chapter — cultural life including myth, stories, and proverbs; the third chapter — social life, which discusses: economic activity — gathering and hunting, grazing, agriculture, trade, social system — tribe and family, and Al-Juhaiman... a biography, Al-Juhaiman's method in collecting stories, and finally an appendix about a dialogue conducted by the author with Abdul Karim Al-Juhaiman for Al-Nass Al-Jadeed magazine.