The Arabian Nights, Volume 1

Muhsin Mahdi

Norton, 1990 - Literary Criticism - 428 pages

This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi's reconstruction of the original Nights. The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfillment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Arabian Nights, Volume 1; The Arabian Nights, Husain Haddawy
• Editor: Muhsin Mahdi
• Translated by: Husain Haddawy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Norton, 1990
• ISBN: 0393027074, 9780393027075
• Length: 428 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Middle Eastern