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The Arabian nights, Alf laylah wa-laylah, translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript ; edited by Muhsin Mahdi

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The Arabian nights, Alf laylah wa-laylah, translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript ; edited by Muhsin Mahdi

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non fiction

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The Arabian nights

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translated by Husain Haddawy ; based on the text of the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript ; edited by Muhsin Mahdi

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Alf laylah wa-laylah

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A new translation of the famous collection of tales having their roots in the folklore of India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi talesForeword -- Prologue: The story of King Shahrayar and Shahrazad, his vizier's daughter -- The tale of the ox and the donkey -- The tale of the merchant and his wife -- The story of the merchant and the demon -- The first old man's tale -- The second old man's tale -- The story of the fisherman and the demon -- The tale of King Yunan and the sage Duban -- The tale of the husband and the parrot -- The tale of the king's son and the she-ghoul -- The tale of the enchanted king -- The story of the porter and the three ladies -- The first dervish's tale -- The second dervish's tale -- The tale of the envious and the envied -- The third dervish's tale -- The tale of the first lady, the mistress of the house -- The tale of the second lady, the flogged one -- The story of the three apples -- The story of the two viziers, Nur al-Din Ali al-Misri and Badr al-Din Hasan al-Basri -- The story of the hunchback -- The Christian broker's tale: the young man with the severed hand and the girl -- The steward's tale: the young man from Baghdad and Lady Zubaida's maid -- The Jewish physician's tale: the young man from Mosul and the murdered girl -- The tailor's tale: the lame young man from Baghdad and the barber -- The barber's tale -- The tale of the first brother, the hunchbacked tailor -- The tale of the second brother, Baqbaqa the paraplegic -- The tale of the third brother, Faqfaq the blind -- The tale of the fourth brother, the one-eyed butcher -- The tale of the fifth brother, the cropped of ears -- The tale of the sixth brother, the cropped of lips -- The story of Nur Al-Din Ali ibn-Bakkar and the slave-girl Shams al-Nahar -- The story of the slave-girl Anis al-Jalis and Nur al-Din Ali ibn-Khaqan -- The story of Jullanar of the sea -- Translator's postscript

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Alf laylah wa-laylah

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