摘要：Focusing on the cultural and social values of the Arabian Nightsin ArabIslamic history, we have investigated the formative mechanism of the socalled Egyptian recension of the Arabian Nights,with a particular emphasis on its socio cultural background in the Modern and preModern Arab worlds. Our research has been supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), provided by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Here, we introduce our research on: (1) origins of the Arabian Nights, (2) the second Calcutta edition and the Arabian Nightsdatabase project, (3) digitization and catalog publication of the “Mardrus Collection Bequest,” and (4) manuscripts of the One Hundred and One Nights.
