How many of the “1001 Nights” were Jewish ones ... that Jews contributed stories to “The Arabian Nights,” resulting in many Jewish characters in the narratives, and some of the most ...

From early texts to maps, London rare book dealer Harrington offers a ... of iconic literary works such as the Rubaiyat and 1,001 Arabian Nights. The selection also includes rare and highly ...

In his witty essay on the translators of the 1001 Nights, Borges celebrates ... a millennium before the earliest manuscript of the Arabian Nights. Who wins on pedigree? Scholars object to ...

Queen Scheherazade saves her life by her presence of mind as she recounts a succession of tales, that never end before day-break, over a period of 1,001 ... termed as ‘Arabian Nights’, have ...

Edgar Allan Poe and the entire comic book industry, just to name a few. While there have been many editions and translations of The Arabian Nights, Mushin Mahdi’s 1984 Arabic-language edition ...