Arabian Nights and DaysThe Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths. |
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Abdul Qadir al-Maheeni Abdullah the porter Adnan Shouma Akraman al-Din al-Fadl ibn Khaqan al-Hamadhani al-Mu’in ibn Sawi al-Salouli Aladdin asked Bayumi al-Armal beautiful Buteisha Murgan Café Cap of Invisibility chief of police crime darkness Darwish Omran date palm death doctor Abdul Qadir door dream Dunyazad eyes face Fadil Sanaan fear Galil al-Bazzaz Gamasa al-Bulti Gamila genie God’s governor Gulnar Habazlam Haikal happy Hasan al-Attar hashish head heard heart Husam al-Fiqi Husniya Ibrahim the water-carrier inquired Karam al-Aseel Kharijites killed laughed looked Ma’rouf the cobbler madman Majesty marriage Master Sahloul mercy muttered Naguib Mahfouz night palace people’s private secretary quarter Qumqam Ragab the porter Rasmiya rebab Sakhrabout saying secret Shahrzad Shamloul the hunchback Sheikh Abdullah al-Balkhi Shiites shouted silence Sindbad Singam sister smile story Suleiman al-Zeini There’s thought told took trembling truth Ugr the barber Umm Saad vizier Dandan voice What’s whispered wife woman Yusuf al-Tahir Zarmabaha