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The Arabian Nights Reader (Wayne State University Press, 2006). Ulrich Marzolph, Richard van Leeuwen, Hassan Wassouf (2004).The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. Charles Pellat, "Alf Layla Wa Layla" in Encyclopædia Iranica. Online access June 2011. Pinault, David (1992). Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. Brill Publishers. ISBN 90-04 ...
The naqus (Arabic: ناقوس, romanized: nāqūs) is a percussion musical instrument, and under that name there are a set of traditions associated with Islamic-Christian relations. It can either be a bell or a wooden plank; in the latter form, it is similar to the semantron .
In 2004, psychedelic trance group 1200 Micrograms released song called "1001 Arabian Nights" on The Time Machine album. In 2004, the Santa Clara Vanguard performed "Scheherazade" for their Drum Corps International show. In 2007, Japanese pop duo Bennie K released a single titled "1001 Nights", also releasing a music video strongly based on The ...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...
The Arabic scale is strongly melodic, often Phrygian Dominant and based on various maqamat (sing. maqam) or modes (also known as makam in Turkish music). The early Arabs translated and developed Greek texts and works of music and mastered the musical theory of the music of ancient Greece (i.e. Systema ametabolon, enharmonium, chromatikon ...
Arabian Nights is a two-part 2000 miniseries, adapted by Peter Barnes from Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the medieval epic One Thousand and One Nights. Mili Avital and Dougray Scott star as Scheherazade and Shahryar respectively.
Shahrizade telling tales to Shahriyar.Artist: Ferdinand Keller. 1880 The main rock of F. Amirov's ballet is the "Arabian Nights" tales with an ancient history, the cruel Shahriyar and the wise Shahrizade, the intelligence, bravery and kindness of the Eastern woman, and her victory with the strength of all these aspects. [4]
The One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights) is easily the best known of all Arabic literature and which still shapes many of the ideas non-Arabs have about Arabic culture. The stories of Aladdin and Ali Baba, usually regarded as part of the Tales from One Thousand and One Nights, were not actually part of the Tales.