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The Arabian Nights = Alf laylah wa-laylah / translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript edited by Muhsin Mahdi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publication details: New York : W W Norton & Co Inc 2008, c1990.Description: xxxvi, 518 p. : map ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0393331660 (pbk.)
  • 9780393331660
Other title: الف ليلة وليلة Other title:
  • Alf laylah wa-laylah
Uniform titles:
  • Arabian nights. English.
Subject(s):
Contents:
Prologue: the story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter -- The story of the merchant and the demon -- The story of the fisherman and the demon -- The story of the porter and the three ladies -- The story of the three apples -- The story of the hunchback -- The story of the Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Bakkar and the slave-girl Shams al-Nahar -- The story of the slave-girl Anis al Jalis and Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Khaqan -- The story of Jullanar of the sea.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 398.22 A658 Available 33111007058452
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed-- new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories.

Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad , a collection of four later stories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition, including "Sindbad the Sailor" and "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp."

First published as a Norton paperback: New York : W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995.

Prologue: the story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, His Vizier's Daughter -- The story of the merchant and the demon -- The story of the fisherman and the demon -- The story of the porter and the three ladies -- The story of the three apples -- The story of the hunchback -- The story of the Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Bakkar and the slave-girl Shams al-Nahar -- The story of the slave-girl Anis al Jalis and Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Khaqan -- The story of Jullanar of the sea.

Translated from the Arabic.

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