The Arabian nights

Preface

A note on the text

[pt. 1] The text of The Arabian nights

Foreword

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 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 Bar 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 tailor's tale : the lame young man from Baghdad and the barber]

[The tale of the second brother, Baqbaqa the paraplegic]

[The tale of the fifth brother, the cropped of ears]

[The story of Jullanar of the sea]

[The story of Sindbad the sailor]

[pt. 2] Contexts

A ninth-century fragment of the thousand nights / Anonymous

Meadows of gold (Muruj al-Dhahab) / Al Mas'udi

The fihrist / Ibn Ishaq al-Nadim

The thousand-and-second tale of Scheherazade / Edgar Allan Poe

From Remembrance of things past / Marvel Prousr

From The dreams of Scheherazade / Taha Husayn

[pt. 3] Criticism

A thousand and one nights / Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The origins of The Arabian nights / Josef Horovitz

The translators of The thousand and one nights / Jorge Luis Borges

The thousand and one nights in European culture / Francexco Gabrieli

From The art of story-telling / Mia Irene Gerhardt

Narrative men / Tzvetan Todorov

A comic romance from The thousand and one nights : The tale of two viziers / Andras Hamori

Neglected conclusions of The Arabian nights : gelanings in forgotten and overlooked recensions / Heinz Grotzfeld

Madness and cure in The 1001 nights / Jerome W. Clinton

The eye and the needle / Abdelfattah Kilito

Story-telling techniques in The Arabian nights / David Pinault

The Arabian Nights : a chronology

Selected bibliography.