Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic): Kitab Alf

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic): Kitab Alf Layla wa Layla

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazar Afsan which in turn relied partly on Indian elements. What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryar and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1,001 or more. Some of the stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were added into the collection by Antoine Galland and other European translators. The innovative and rich poetry and poetic speeches, chants, songs, lamentations, hymns, beseeching, praising, pleading, riddles and annotations provided by Scheherazade or her story characters are unique to the Arabic version of the book. Some are as short as one line, while others go for tens of lines.
Country USA
Brand Jiahu Books
Manufacturer JiaHu Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
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EANs 9781909669338
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Jiahu Books
Manufacturer	JiaHu Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781909669338
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Arabic): Kitab Alf Layla wa Layla

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