In “The Story of the Merchant and the Demon,” why is the first man traveling with a deer?

What does the “forest dark” symbolize in this line of Inferno? “Midway upon the journey of our life/ I found myself within a forest dark…”

What lesson is intended in the “Tale of the Ox and Donkey,” told by the vizier to his daughter Shahrazad?

How does the second dervish lose his right eye?

How do the poet’s descend from the eighth to the ninth circle of Hell?

To what group did the Muslim Delhi Sultanate lose power in the early sixteenth century?

For what purpose does the King of the Black Castle allow his wife to build a mausoleum?

Which two texts emphasize the consequences of hubris (excessive pride)?

Why are Odysseus’s men unable to land at Ithaca even though they have sighted the shoreline from their ships?

In “The Porter and the Three Ladies,” what does the mistress of the house do to the two black dogs in front of her guests—the porter, the three dervishes, and the caliph and his vizier?