Thousand and One nights, Commonly Called, in england, the Arabian nights' Entertainments.

by Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Bennett Cerf

Hardcover

About the author

Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.

The present new translation of Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the BibliothEque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic.

This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.