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The Mercantile Culture of Paris and Constantinople
In the original Arabic stories in the manuscript that get along with get the most recurrent protagonist is a merchant. The typical story is your merchants, your dad was fairly successful you inherited a lot from him. And then of course what do you do your young you want to have friends you want to be surrounded by attractive people so you squander your all their inheritance. That's like the plot for the, for the stories in the original cycle of tales in the thousand one nights.
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