The Arabian Nights = Alf laylah wa-laylah
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Published
New York ; W W Norton & Company, Inc, [2008].
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 518 pages : map ; 21 cm
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Canon City Public Library - NONFICTION
398.22 ARA
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Published
New York ; W W Norton & Company, Inc, [2008].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published as a Norton paperback: New York : W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
Overview: Husain Haddawy's rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the BibliothEque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.
Language
In English; translated from the Arabic.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Haddawy, H., & Mahdi, M. (2008). The Arabian Nights =: Alf laylah wa-laylah . W W Norton & Company, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Haddawy, Husain and Muhsin, Mahdi. 2008. The Arabian Nights =: Alf Laylah Wa-laylah. W W Norton & Company, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Haddawy, Husain and Muhsin, Mahdi. The Arabian Nights =: Alf Laylah Wa-laylah W W Norton & Company, Inc, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Haddawy, Husain,, and Muhsin Mahdi. The Arabian Nights =: Alf Laylah Wa-laylah W W Norton & Company, Inc, 2008.
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