The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Vol. 1) (Thousand Nights & One Night)

This first of four volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 NOTE......Page 10 DEDICATION......Page 12 INVOCATION......Page 13 THE TALE OF KING SHAHRYR AND OF HIS BROTHER, KING SHAHZAMN containing......Page 14 THE TALE OF THE MERCHANT AND THE IFRT containing......Page 23 THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINN containing......Page 32 THE TALE OF THE PORTER AND THE YOUNG GIRLS containing......Page 63 THE TALE OF THE WOMAN CUT IN PIECES, THE THREE APPLES AND THE NEGRO RAIHN......Page 133 THE TALE OF THE WAZR NR AL-DN, HIS BROTHER THE WAZR SHAMS AL-DN, AND HASAN BADR AL-DN......Page 140 THE TALE OF THE HUNCHBACK WITH THE TAILOR, THE CHRISTIAN BROKER, THE STEWARD AND THE JEWISH DOCTOR; WHAT FOLLOWED AFTER; AND THE TALES WHICH EACH OF THEM TOLD containing......Page 187 THE TALE OF THE BARBER OF BAGHDD AND THE TALES OF HIS SIX BROTHERS that is to say......Page 245 THE TALE OF SWEET-FRIEND AND AL-NR......Page 284 THE TALE OF GHNIM IBN AYYB AND HIS SISTER FITNAH containing......Page 329 THE TALE OF KING UMAR AL-NUMN AND HIS TWO REMARKABLE SONS, SHARKN AND D AL-MAKN containing......Page 358 THE DELIGHTFUL TALE OF THE BEASTS AND BIRDS containing......Page 596 THE TALE OF ALI IBN BAKR AND THE FAIR SHAMS AL-NAHR......Page 624 This translation, the only complete and accurate one in English and now available in paperback, presents a full and frank version of the Arabian Nights. The World's most vivid and absorbing stories are here given in a full and unexpurgated translation, and in all the enthralling power of their narrative. First Published in 1986. For this revised edition of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night all names of persons and places and all Arabic words retained in the text have, where necessary, been compared with and corrected by Macnaghten's Calcutta Edition of the original (1839– 42). IT is related-but Allah is all wise and all knowing, all powerful and all beneficent-that there was, in the tide and show of ancient time and the passage of the age and of the moment, a king among the kings of Sasan, in the isles of India and China. The third volume of this complete and accurate translation of the tales of the Arabian nights. First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Annotation Volume four of this translation of the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights