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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kundafrun, a sort of erstaz Richard the Lionhearted, appears in a couple of tales. The real-life sultana of Egypt, Shajar al-Durr, also appears in ''Sirat Baibars'' as Fatima Shajarat al-Durr.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kundafrun, a sort of erstaz ersatz Richard the Lionhearted, appears in a couple of tales. The real-life sultana of Egypt, Shajar al-Durr, also appears in ''Sirat Baibars'' as Fatima Shajarat al-Durr.
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* WarriorPoet: In a culture which admires courage and poetry, Antar merits serious respect.
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* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Maimuna marries the Greek emperor Armanus despite having already married Abd al-Wahhab. Perhaps she figured if she had one Christian husband and one Muslim husband it didn't count.
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* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Maimuna marries the Greek Eastern Roman emperor Armanus despite having already married Abd al-Wahhab. Perhaps she figured if she had one Christian husband and one Muslim husband it didn't count.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Some of the ''Rum'' (Byzantine Greek) and ''franj'' (Frankish, general term for Western European) characters have real names, but most of them have clearly made-up names that simply sound exotic.
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Some of the ''Rum'' (Byzantine Greek) Greek/Eastern Roman) and ''franj'' (Frankish, general term for Western European) characters have real names, but most of them have clearly made-up names that simply sound exotic.
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* ChocolateBaby: Harith, Fatima Dhat al-Himma's husband, bribes one of her servants to drug her so that he can rape her. Fatima then gives birth to a son, Abd al-Wahhab, who is black supposedly due to his [[YouFailBiologyForever mother menstruating when he was conceived]].
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* ChocolateBaby: Harith, Fatima Dhat al-Himma's husband, bribes one of her servants to drug her so that he can rape her. Fatima then gives birth to a son, Abd al-Wahhab, who is black supposedly due to his [[YouFailBiologyForever [[ArtisticLicenseBiology mother menstruating when he was conceived]].
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* LovingForce: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
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* VictimFallsForRapist: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
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* VictimFallsForRapist: LovingForce: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
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Hot Amazon was transplanted to Amazon Chaser, which makes it clear it\'s about the guy being interested in the girl because she\'s an amazon.
* AmazonChaser: Abu Muhammad al-Battal falls in love with his future wife Nura after spying her besting other girls in wrestling.
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* HotAmazon: So many examples. Jaida bint Zuhair from ''Sirat Antar'', who, Red Sonja-like, only married her husband Khalid after they fought a duel. Abu Muhammad al-Battal falls in love with his future wife Nura after spying her besting other girls in wrestling. The epic ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma'' is about the warrior-queen Fatima Dhat al-Himma, who fights duels, leads armies, and is basically the baddest mofo around.
** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself.
** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself.
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Rape Is Love to Victim Falls For Rapist per the rape tropes Special Efforts thread
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* VictimFallsForRapist: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
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** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself.
* HoYay: Ibrahim ibn al-Kashib fights and almost kills the Greek prince Nufil, but so admires Nufil's beauty that he spares his life.
* HoYay: Ibrahim ibn al-Kashib fights and almost kills the Greek prince Nufil, but so admires Nufil's beauty that he spares his life.
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** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself. \n* HoYay: Ibrahim ibn al-Kashib fights and almost kills the Greek prince Nufil, but so admires Nufil's beauty that he spares his life.
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''The Arabian Hero Cycles'' are a collection of folklore and stories, traditionally passed on orally, that originated in the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East. The ''Literature/ArabianNights'' are the most famous collection; this entry will cover lesser-known tales.
The typical structure of an Arabian Hero Cycle is as follows: a hero (sometimes based on a [[HistoricalDomainCharacter real person]]) sets out on a quest, often to find a bride. Common motifs and characters include battles, princesses, viziers, warrior women, and cross-dressing.
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!! These stories provide examples of:
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Some of the ''Rum'' (Byzantine Greek) and ''franj'' (Frankish, general term for Western European) characters have real names, but most of them have clearly made-up names that simply sound exotic.
* AttemptedRape: This happens a lot, usually as a peril from which the hero can rescue a princess and then eventually marry her.
* BastardBastard: Abd al-Salib, conceived when a Portuguese princess was raped by forty brigands, is brilliant but utterly evil and deranged.
* BlackWidow: al-Qannasa, a lady brigand who marries a succession of young men and then kills them.
* ChildByRape
* ChocolateBaby: Harith, Fatima Dhat al-Himma's husband, bribes one of her servants to drug her so that he can rape her. Fatima then gives birth to a son, Abd al-Wahhab, who is black supposedly due to his [[YouFailBiologyForever mother menstruating when he was conceived]].
* DownerEnding: In ''Ali al-Zaibaq'', after many tribulations, the hero Ali takes another wife, which infuriates his first wife, Zainab. She goes Medea on him, and in turn is killed by their son, Asad.
* EvilSorcerer: Ezra, the sorcerer-king of Tiberias in ''Ali al-Zaibaq'', who transforms the titular hero into a donkey.
* {{Fetish}}: Al-Battal loves to be whipped by his wife, Nura.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: In one of the most extreme examples, Arnus, a hero of ''Sirat Baibars'', turns out to have a posse of sons scattered here and there.
* HotAmazon: So many examples. Jaida bint Zuhair from ''Sirat Antar'', who, Red Sonja-like, only married her husband Khalid after they fought a duel. Abu Muhammad al-Battal falls in love with his future wife Nura after spying her besting other girls in wrestling. The epic ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma'' is about the warrior-queen Fatima Dhat al-Himma, who fights duels, leads armies, and is basically the baddest mofo around.
** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself.
* HoYay: Ibrahim ibn al-Kashib fights and almost kills the Greek prince Nufil, but so admires Nufil's beauty that he spares his life.
* LoveDodecahedron: Some very complex ones, but here's one particularly twisted example: Abd al-Wahhab loved Maimuna and they had a son, Bahrun. Maimuna then fell in love with and married Armanus. Her son Bahrun falls in love with the princess Iftuna, who declares that the Prophet Muhammad promised her in a dream that she would marry Armanus.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kundafrun, a sort of erstaz Richard the Lionhearted, appears in a couple of tales. The real-life sultana of Egypt, Shajar al-Durr, also appears in ''Sirat Baibars'' as Fatima Shajarat al-Durr.
* OffingTheOffspring: Maimuna cuts the throat of her own son, Bahrun, after circumstances result in them fighting on opposite sides.
* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Maimuna marries the Greek emperor Armanus despite having already married Abd al-Wahhab. Perhaps she figured if she had one Christian husband and one Muslim husband it didn't count.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Many, many examples of people falling in love with women they glimpse in dreams, or Christians converting to Islam after having a prophetic dream.
* RapeIsLove: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The 400-year-old vizier, Amr.
* ScaryBlackMan: The WarriorPoet Antar.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Abd al-Wahhab kills his {{Jerkass}} father, Harith, in single combat.
* SweetPollyOliver: The heroines get in on the crossdressing, too. In one notable instance, the warrior-queen Fatima Dhat al-Himma disguises herself as a priest and kisses the heroine Nura "twenty times"!
* WhatTheHellHero: A particularly blatant example is when Qatalunaj meets his fated bride, Zuhur, the princess of China. Zuhur's father, the king, falls in love with his own daughter and kills her so that Qatalunaj cannot have her. Qatalunaj convinces him to repent and become a Muslim, and after that all is forgiven. Too bad for the dead princess.
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The typical structure of an Arabian Hero Cycle is as follows: a hero (sometimes based on a [[HistoricalDomainCharacter real person]]) sets out on a quest, often to find a bride. Common motifs and characters include battles, princesses, viziers, warrior women, and cross-dressing.
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!! These stories provide examples of:
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Some of the ''Rum'' (Byzantine Greek) and ''franj'' (Frankish, general term for Western European) characters have real names, but most of them have clearly made-up names that simply sound exotic.
* AttemptedRape: This happens a lot, usually as a peril from which the hero can rescue a princess and then eventually marry her.
* BastardBastard: Abd al-Salib, conceived when a Portuguese princess was raped by forty brigands, is brilliant but utterly evil and deranged.
* BlackWidow: al-Qannasa, a lady brigand who marries a succession of young men and then kills them.
* ChildByRape
* ChocolateBaby: Harith, Fatima Dhat al-Himma's husband, bribes one of her servants to drug her so that he can rape her. Fatima then gives birth to a son, Abd al-Wahhab, who is black supposedly due to his [[YouFailBiologyForever mother menstruating when he was conceived]].
* DownerEnding: In ''Ali al-Zaibaq'', after many tribulations, the hero Ali takes another wife, which infuriates his first wife, Zainab. She goes Medea on him, and in turn is killed by their son, Asad.
* EvilSorcerer: Ezra, the sorcerer-king of Tiberias in ''Ali al-Zaibaq'', who transforms the titular hero into a donkey.
* {{Fetish}}: Al-Battal loves to be whipped by his wife, Nura.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: In one of the most extreme examples, Arnus, a hero of ''Sirat Baibars'', turns out to have a posse of sons scattered here and there.
* HotAmazon: So many examples. Jaida bint Zuhair from ''Sirat Antar'', who, Red Sonja-like, only married her husband Khalid after they fought a duel. Abu Muhammad al-Battal falls in love with his future wife Nura after spying her besting other girls in wrestling. The epic ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma'' is about the warrior-queen Fatima Dhat al-Himma, who fights duels, leads armies, and is basically the baddest mofo around.
** Fatima Dhat al-Himma's daughter-in-law is the ferocious Abysinnian princess, Maimuna. She abducts Abd al-Wahhab to her own castle, and when her father the king sends soldiers to capture them, she and Abd al-Wahhab fight them all of themselves. Maimuna slays her own father, and when Abd al-Wahhab tries to escape, she chases and unhorses him, then dumps him and returns home. Later, she dives into a fight between Abd al-Wahhab and the cannibal king Ghasiq, knocks out Abd al-Wahhab, and defeats Ghasiq herself.
* HoYay: Ibrahim ibn al-Kashib fights and almost kills the Greek prince Nufil, but so admires Nufil's beauty that he spares his life.
* LoveDodecahedron: Some very complex ones, but here's one particularly twisted example: Abd al-Wahhab loved Maimuna and they had a son, Bahrun. Maimuna then fell in love with and married Armanus. Her son Bahrun falls in love with the princess Iftuna, who declares that the Prophet Muhammad promised her in a dream that she would marry Armanus.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Kundafrun, a sort of erstaz Richard the Lionhearted, appears in a couple of tales. The real-life sultana of Egypt, Shajar al-Durr, also appears in ''Sirat Baibars'' as Fatima Shajarat al-Durr.
* OffingTheOffspring: Maimuna cuts the throat of her own son, Bahrun, after circumstances result in them fighting on opposite sides.
* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Maimuna marries the Greek emperor Armanus despite having already married Abd al-Wahhab. Perhaps she figured if she had one Christian husband and one Muslim husband it didn't count.
* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: Many, many examples of people falling in love with women they glimpse in dreams, or Christians converting to Islam after having a prophetic dream.
* RapeIsLove: Al-Battal in ''Sirat al-amira Dhat al-Himma' tries this on his love interest, Nura.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The 400-year-old vizier, Amr.
* ScaryBlackMan: The WarriorPoet Antar.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Abd al-Wahhab kills his {{Jerkass}} father, Harith, in single combat.
* SweetPollyOliver: The heroines get in on the crossdressing, too. In one notable instance, the warrior-queen Fatima Dhat al-Himma disguises herself as a priest and kisses the heroine Nura "twenty times"!
* WhatTheHellHero: A particularly blatant example is when Qatalunaj meets his fated bride, Zuhur, the princess of China. Zuhur's father, the king, falls in love with his own daughter and kills her so that Qatalunaj cannot have her. Qatalunaj convinces him to repent and become a Muslim, and after that all is forgiven. Too bad for the dead princess.
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