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The Arabian Nights: A Companion (EBook (PDF) ed.). London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85771-051-2. OCLC 843203755. Ulrich Marzolph (ed.). 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 ...
The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang at Project Gutenberg; 1001 Nights, Representative of eastern literature (in Persian) "The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade" by Edgar Allan Poe (Wikisource) Arabian Nights Six full-color plates of illustrations from the 1001 Nights which are in the public domain (in Arabic) The Tales in Arabic on Wikisource
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 ...
Ghazali's interpretation found its way into the One Thousand and One Nights. [71] The esteemed medieval Persian poet Rumi (1207-1273) wrote about Dhu al-Qarnayn's eastward travels. Here, the hero climbs Mount Qaf, the emerald 'mother' of all mountains encircling the Earth, its veins spreading below every land. Upon Dhu al-Qarnayn's request, the ...
This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—were published in 1885. His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes. Later pirate copies split the very large third ...
The oldest known text of the tale of Scheherazade is a ninth century (CE) Arabic manuscript from Cairo.Across the next five centuries, Scheherazade’s "witty, lively and dynamic" voice was taken up by storytellers across the cultivated urban centres of Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and al-Andalus, with influences from multiple traditions, including Greek, Coptic, North African, and Hebrew.
1001 Arabian Nights is a 1959 American animated comedy film produced by United Productions of America (UPA) and distributed by Columbia Pictures.Released to theaters on December 1, 1959, the film is a loose adaptation of the Arab folktale of "Aladdin" from One Thousand and One Nights, albeit with the addition of UPA's star cartoon character, Mr. Magoo, to the story as Aladdin's uncle, "Abdul ...
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.