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  2. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

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    Further references to the Arabian Nights are expressed in parallels with the stories of Khudâdâd and His Brothers, 'Alâ' al-Dîn, and the History of the Princess of Daryâbâr. Whereas the Arabian Nights focuses on the narrative themes of providence and destiny, Voltaire substituted the interference of divine power with human intervention.

  4. Arabic epic literature - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Translations of One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    John Payne - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (unexpurgated) (1882–84) Edward Powys Mathers based on J. C. Mardrus in 4 volumes (1923) 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)

  6. Arab wedding - Wikipedia

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    An important element of the henna night in both traditional and non-traditional henna parties is the dress adorned by the Palestinian women and the groom. The women dress in traditional (usually hand-embroidered) gowns, known as Palestinian ithyab. The brides would be extravagant and exquisitely embroidered.

  7. Harem pants - Wikipedia

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    Harem pants shown in Arabian Nights. Harem pants came back into fashion in the 1980s, when they were remembered for being 'costumey.' [11] A version of harem pants popularized in the late 1980s by M. C. Hammer became known as Hammer pants.

  8. Khaleegy (dance) - Wikipedia

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    The top dress is a long, wide, rectangular tunic-like dress called a thobe. It is traditionally made of sheer fabric to create a translucent effect and let a hint of the shift dress be seen, it is heavily embroidered from the centre and the extreme wide shoulder parts with beads, thread embroidery or anything shiny.

  9. Agal (accessory) - Wikipedia

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    The agal is traced in Semitic [4] and Middle Eastern civilizations and even in ancient Arabian kingdoms. In his book Iran in the Ancient East , the archaeologist and Iranologist Ernst Herzfeld , in referring to the Susa bas-reliefs, points to the ancient agal as unique headwear of Elamites that distinguished them from other nations.