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More copies of this ISBN:The Arabian Nightsby Husain Haddawy
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Now as sumptuously packaged as it is critically acclaimed—a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. 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 Bibliothèque 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. Synopsis:This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi's reconstruction of the original "Nights". The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfilment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane. Synopsis:Husain Haddawy's critically acclaimed Arabian Nights, based on Muhsin Mahdi's landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant version. This book has a collection of 35 tales from the 'Nights.' About the AuthorHusain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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