Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.

Ulrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Gottingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board of the Enzyklopadie des Marchens (19862015), he is now conducting a research project studying the impact of narratives from the Muslim Middle East on Western tradition. He is the editor of The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006) and The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective (Wayne State University Press, 2007).