The Arabian Nights:
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Description
The stories of The Arabian Nights—stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories—are told in the voice of a beautiful young woman, Shahrazad, who will lose her life if the king loses interest in her nightly narratives. Collected over several centuries from a variety of sources in India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, amorous encounters, and animal fables to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided daily entertainment in the medieval Islamic world, and still exert their presence today in literature and art, as well as everyday life. Over centuries of telling and retelling, the stories were modified to reflect the general life and customs of the Arab society that adapted them—a distinctive synthesis that marks the cultural and artistic history of Islam.
This edition of The Arabian Nights is the complete text of Muhsin Mahdi’s critical edition, translated into English by Husain Haddawy.
ISBN
9780393027075
Publication Date
1990
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
City
New York, NY
Document Type
Book
Keywords
Muslim Journeys, The Arabian Nights, Medieval Islam, Arab society, Artistic history, Cultural history
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Religion
Recommended Citation
Mahdi, Muhsin, "The Arabian Nights:" (1990). Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys. 3.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/muslim-journeys-books/3
