1001 Arabian Nights Complete:: Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, and Other Classics
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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern 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 original concept is most likely derived from an ancient Sassanid Persian prototype that relied partly on Indian elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East 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. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century. (wikipedia)
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1450532756
ISBN13:9781450532754
Release Date:February 2010
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:150 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:10.0" x 0.3" x 8.0"
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