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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 ...
One Thousand and One Nights (4 C, ... (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Arabian mythology" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Book of Idols;
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 ...
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Second Lieutenant William A. Eddy (MCSN: 0-1135), United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as the Intelligence Officer, Sixth Regiment (Marines), 2d Division, A.E ...
One Hundred and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب فيه حديث مائة ليلة وليلة, romanized: Kitâb Fîhi Hadîth Mi'a Layla wa-Layla) [1] is a book of Arabic literature consisting of twenty stories, which presents many similarities to the more famous One Thousand and One Nights. [2] Scheherazade and Shahryar by Ferdinand Keller, 1880
The epic took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the 14th century; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another. [3] All Arabian fantasy tales were often called "Arabian Nights" when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, in any ...
In Arabian mythology, Hubal (Arabic: هُبَل) was a god worshipped in pre-Islamic Arabia, notably by the Quraysh at the Kaaba in Mecca. The god's icon was a human figure believed to control acts of divination , which was performed by tossing arrows before the statue.
ʿAntarah was born in Najd in the Arabian Peninsula. His father was Arab, Shaddād al-ʿAbsī, a respected warrior of the Banu Abs under their chief Zuhayr. [1] His mother was an Ethiopian woman named Zabībah. [2] Described as one of three "Arab crows" (Aghribah al-'Arab) - famous Arab with a black complexion, [3] ʿAntarah