حكاية علي الزيبق في "ألف ليلة وليلة" (دراسة تحليلية)

This research studies and analyzes the character of the popular hero (Al-Shater Ali Al-Zibq) and his story in its early artistic beginnings, which the connoisseurs of folkloric arts attributed to the popular text (the Arabian Nights). They say that Ali Al- Zibq is a folk tale that had a tiny root in the famous book, the Arabian Nights, therefore, they conclud that this tale is of a late Cairo character compared to the other tales in the book, and that this technical root dates back almost to the end of the Mamluk era in the eighth century AH (fourteenth century).
The Tales of Al-Shater Ali Al-Zibq represented the brightest and most famous model of the stories of Al-Shottar and their adventures in the Arabian Nights, reflecting The tricks of Al-Shottar, their methods, their arts, their sects and heroes, as well as the features of the social, political and cultural environment in which Al-Zibq lived at that time. They included significant signs of a social reality brimming with corruption, Expressed by the popular communities through a kind of  resistance known as the culture of resistance by trick, ascribed to their hero the popular loyal Shater Ali Zibq.