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Two notable novels loosely based on The Nights are Arabian Nights and Days by Naguib Mahfouz and When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan. The children's novel The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey is also loosely derived from The Nights. Larry Niven, a Science Fiction & Fantasy author, wrote The Tale of the Jenni and the Sisters.
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 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 ...
Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer.He is known for his Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians and the Arabic-English Lexicon, as well as his translations of One Thousand and One Nights and Selections from the Kur-án.
Like the frame-story of the Nights, it is about a woman displaying her exceptional wit before a king, showing herself to be wiser than the men of his court. A number of stories in the Nights give a prominent role to women, such as Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī and Anīs al-Jalīs , The Man of al-Yaman and his Six Slave-girls , ʿAlī Shār and Zumurrud ...
The last includes a number of tales translated from a fragment of a manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights, procured in Bengal by James Anderson. In 1811 Scott published the work by which he is known, his edition of the Arabian Nights Entertainments , in 6 vols. Edward Wortley Montagu had brought back from Turkey a nearly complete manuscript ...
Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights published by Penguin Books based on the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) in 10 volumes (2008) The Arabian Nights: the Husain Haddawy Translation Based on the Text Edited by Muhsin Mahdi, Contexts, Criticism, ed. by Daniel Heller-Roazen (New York ...
Arabian Nights is a 1974 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Its original Italian title is Il fiore delle mille e una notte , which means The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights . The film is an adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology One Thousand and One Nights , also known as the Arabian Nights .