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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 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 ...
Later pirate copies split the very large third volume into two volumes. The nights are in the style of stories within stories, and the frame story is The Story Of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother or The Story Of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad, in which Scheherazade tells tales to her husband Shahryar.
At the end of 1,001 nights, and 1,000 stories, Scheherazade finally told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. She summoned her three sons that she had bore him during the 1000 nights to come in before the king (one was a nursling, one was crawling, and one could walk) and she placed them in front of the king.
It features the three most popular characters from the Arabian Nights. Ali Baba Bujang Lapok (1960) is a Malaysian comedy film which quite faithfully adhered to the tale's plot details but introduced a number of anachronisms for humour, for example the usage of a truck instead of donkey by Cassim Baba to steal the robbers' loot.
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)
The tale is also considered to be one of the so called "orphan stories" of the Arabian Nights compilation, because a Persian or Indian original text has not been found, unlike other tales. [5] Some scholars, including Ulrich Marzolph [ de ] and Ruth Bottigheimer , ascribe its source to a Maronite Christian named Hanna Diyab , from whom French ...
He acquired a legendary reputation as a fierce warrior and, also, for his extreme generosity. Ma'n appears as a main character in four tales, in The Arabian Nights. Tale of Ma‘n ibn Zâ’ida; It is Impossible to Arouse Ma‘n’s Anger; Ma‘n Obtains Pardon for a Rebel; Ma‘n ibn Zâ’ida and the Badawî; Moses