The Arabian Nights: The Frame Tale
The tales and even the frame story of The Arabian Nights have their roots in many countries: India, China, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, and Greece. Scholar...
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Story of the Larrikin[FN#11] and the Cook
One of the ne’er-do-wells found himself one
fine morning without aught and the world was straightened
upon him and patience failed him; so he lay down t...
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Terminal Essay
Preliminary
The reader who has reached this terminal stage will
hardly require my assurance that he has seen the mediaeval
Arab at his best and, perhaps, at his worst.
In glancing...
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Story of the Darwaysh and the Barber’s Boy and the Greedy Sultan.
It is related (but Allah is All-knowing of hidden
things and All-wise!) that in the days of a King called
Dahmar[FN#151] there w...
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THE TALE OF ZAYN AL-ASNAM.[FN#8]
It hath reached me, O King of the Age, that in Bassorah-city[FN#9]
reigned a puissant Sultan, who was opulent exceedingly
and who owned all the goods of life; but he l...
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The Flea and the Mouse
Once upon a time a mouse dwelt in the house of a merchant
who owned much merchandise and great stories of monies.
One night, a flea took shelter in the merchant’s
c...
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Story of the Second Lunatic.[FN#102]
“O my lord,” quoth the young man, “my
case is marvellous, and haply thou wilt desire me
to relate it in order continuous;” and quoth
the Su...
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Story of Prince Sayf al-Muluk and the Princess Badi’a al-Jamal.
There was once, in days of old and in ages and times
long told, a King in Egypt called Asim bin Safwan,[FN#354]
who was a liberal ...
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Appendix
Variants and Analogues of
Some of the Tales
in Volumes xi and xii
By W. A. Clouston.
The sleeper and
the Waker—Vol. XI. p. 1.
Few if the stories in the “Arabian Nights&...
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RICHARD F. BURTON
United Service Club, August 1st, 1888.
Supplemental
Nights
To The Book
Of The
Thousand Nights And
A Night
The Say of Haykar the
Sage.[FN#6]
In the name of Allah, the Compassionating,...
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Story of the Confectioner, his Wife, and the Parrot.
Once upon a time there dwelt in Egypt a confectioner
who had a wife famed for beauty and loveliness; and
a parrot which, as occasion required, did ...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), English explorer, scholar, poet, translator, and diplomat, explored in Africa and Asia and studied Oriental literature and American religions.Richard Burton was...
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Sir Richard F. Burton, one of the most widely traveled, best read, and most fascinating of Victorian adventurers, was a prolific writer who left enduring accounts of his journeys in India, Arabia, Afr...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton was not a book collector in the usual sense of the word. A prodigious buyer and reader of books throughout his adult life, he amassed a notable library that intimately refle...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton was the preeminent nineteenth-century British travel writer, a brilliant linguist and translator, an extraordinary explorer, a pioneer anthropologist, a poet, a civil engine...
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In the following essay, originally published in Medieval Islam in 1953, von Grunebaum notes several influential elements from classical literature of the Hellenistic age in The Arabian Nights, contend...
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In the following excerpt, Pinault introduces some of the narrative devices used in The Arabian Nights, including repetitive designation, Leitmotifstil, or, lead-word style, and patterns of theme and f...
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In the following essay, Ghazoul argues that the operational structure of The Arabian Nights consists of four major blocks: the story of Shahrayar as king, Shahrayar as a traveler seeking knowledge, th...
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In the following excerpt, Beaumont traces the literary history of The Arabian Nights, offering an overview of European translations that he contends have influenced modern versions of the tales, exami...
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In the following essay, Gerhardt studies the motifs, character descriptions, use of dialogue, and structure of The Arabian Nights, noting that it is difficult for a non-Arabist to easily understand th...
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In the following essay, Knipp offers a reevaluation of Antoine Galland's early-eighteenth-century translation of The Arabian Nights, arguing that despite its limitations, the work should be reg...
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In the following essay, Molan comments on the ironic disparity between Sinbad's actions versus his professed moral stance, characterizing the tale as a parable that is meant to instruct King Sh...
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In the following essay, Mahdi discusses the stylistic origins of the tales in The Arabian Nights, arguing that they comprise a complete and unified text that reworks earlier stories, particularly the ...
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In the following essay, Grotzfeld asserts that a careful study of noncanonical materials associated with The Arabian Nights can shed important light on the history of the collection.
Certainly no o...
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In the following essay, Molan argues that the stories of The Arabian Nights are grounded in folk tradition and attempts to trace changes in the various manuscript adaptations and translations, concent...
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In the following essay, Moussa-Mahmoud presents a brief survey of English travel literature influenced by the tales of The Arabian Nights.
In the opening years of the eighteenth century the strange...
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In the following essay, Naddaff argues that The Arabian Nights uses repetition to structure narrative discourse, thus exploring and emphasizing the relation between time, repetition, and narrative; sh...
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Contemplating the relationship between gender and power, one undoubtedly notices that tradition regards men as the holders of official office and power. Historically, men have also always been the le...
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The One Thousand and One Nights Essay
The roles of women in The Thousand and One Nights are especially interesting because they are treated very differently in numerous circumstances. On the one han...
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Although sex, immorality, and the scandalous actions of women are major themes in The Arabian Nights, there is an underlying theme of curiosity throughout the story. In the foreword it is explained t...
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Teaching The Arabian Nights
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The Arabian Nights Lesson Plans contain 191 pages of teaching material, including:
The Arabian Nights: The Frame Tale
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05
Richard Francis Burton, Sir
Sir Richard F(rancis) Burton
Critical Essay by Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Gender and Power in "1001 Arabian Nights"
