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Prince Ahmed was the younger brother of Houssain. [3] The latter possessed a magic carpet of wondrous locomotive powers. [ 3 ] Ahmed was equally blessed in the ownership of a magic tent, a present from the fairy Paribanou (Peri Banu), which would cover a whole army when spread, yet fold up into so small a compass that it might be carried in one ...
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 prince steals the youngest's garments and wants to make her his wife. The old man tells him to go to the stables and summon a winged steed to carry him back to his kingdom. On the road, the prince meets the fairy's brothers, one at a time, who are disguised as dervishes. The prince kills his brothers-in-law and returns to his father's castle.
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 ...
"Abou Hassan" is one of the Arabian Nights. It concerns Abú al-Hasan-al-Khalí'a (Abou Hassan), a young merchant of Baghdad who is conveyed while asleep to the palace of Haroun-al-Raschid, and on awakening is made to believe that he is in truth the Caliph. [1]
One of the best known Arabian Nights-based films is the 1992 Walt Disney animated movie Aladdin, which is loosely based on the story of the same name. Arabian Nights (2000), a two-part television mini-series adopted for BBC and ABC studios, starring Mili Avital, Dougray Scott, and John Leguizamo, and directed by Steve Barron, is based on the ...
Prolific Indian studio Maddock Films has three successful projects currently on, 15 more in the pipeline and is developing an ambitious film series based on the “Arabian Nights.” Laxman Utekar ...
According to modern scholarship, the name Scheherazade derives from the Middle Persian name Čīhrāzād, which is composed of the words čīhr (' lineage ') and āzād (' noble, exalted '). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name in Arabic sources include Shirazad ( Arabic : شيرازاد , romanized : Šīrāzād ) in al ...