Mahoma, las viejas y el Paraíso: de antiguo hadiz a cuentecillo en colecciones españolas del XIX

Abstract

After Golden Ages, the interest to the jocular story or «cuentecillos» in Spanish Literature rekindles during the 19th century. Numerous collections of short stories were designed with the only objective to make people laugh. During the Golden Ages the preference was the Orientalism and for that consequence in this Spanish collection appears many Arab-Islamic tools. This article aims to make known the long history of ancient hadith of the Arab-Islamic tradition to get known into the 19th century in Spanish Literature such as story. We choose two versions found in El libro de los cuentos of Rafael Boira and El mundo riendo of Roberto Robert on the one hand for explaining the development in their origin tradition. On the other hand, in theses texts for analyzed the possible via of arriving at the Spaniard’s writers of this tale widely used in European written tradition in the 19th century.