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Alif Laila ( transl.One Thousand Nights; 1933) was a Hindi -language fantasy film based on One Thousand and One Nights from the early era of Indian cinema, directed by Balwant Bhatt and Shanti Dave. K. Amarnath made, Alif Laila (1953), another Indian fantasy film in Hindi based on the folktale of Aladdin. [133]
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- Arabic
- 1995
- Middle Ages
The Thousand and One Nights, collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship. Its tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have almost become part of Western folklore, though these were added to the collection only in the 18th century in European adaptations. Shahrazad.
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Oct 26, 2017 · The Arabian nights. Courier Company. Buffalo, N.Y. : Courier Lith. Co., [1888] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. The One Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, as it is also known, is constructed as a “frame story” to which all the other tales are subsequently added.
A web page that provides an excerpt from The Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales. The excerpt tells the story of a porter who follows a beautiful woman and her purchases, and the next night Shahrazad tells another story to the king.
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The story takes place in the Sassanid era and begins with the Persian king Shahryar. The king rules an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab transcripts he is king of India and China). When Shahryar discovers his wife plotting with a lover to kill him, he has the pair executed. Believing all women to be likewise...
The work is made up of a collection of stories thought to be from traditional Persian, Arabic, and Indian stories. The core stories probably originated in an Iranic Empire and were brought together in a Persian work called Hazar Afsanah ("A Thousand Legends"). The Arabic compilation Alf Layla (A Thousand Nights), originating about 850 C.E., was in ...
Literature
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a "Thousand and Second Night" as a separate tale, called "The Thousand And Second Tale Of Scheherazade." It depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the king is uncertain- except in the case of the elephantscarrying the world on the back of the turtle- these mysteries are actual modern events that occurred in various places du...
Film and Television
There have been many adaptations of the Nights, for both television and the big screen, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original stories. The atmosphere of the Nights influenced such films as Fritz Lang's 1921 Der müde Tod, the 1924 Hollywood film The Thief of [[Baghdad starring Douglas Fairbanks, and its 1940 British remake. It also influenced The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926), the first surviving feature-length animated film. One of Hollywood's first feature films to be base...
In 1888, Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed his Op. 35 Scheherazade, in four movements, based upon four of the tales from the Arabian Nights; The Sea and Sinbad's Ship, The Kalendar Prince, The Young Prince and The Young Princess, and Festival At Baghdad. There have been several "Arabian Nights" musicals and operettas, either based ...
Moss, Joyce. Middle Eastern Literatures and their times. Thomas Gayle, 2004. ISBN 0787637319Ouyang, Wen-chin and van Gelder, Geert Jan, (eds.). New perspectives on Arabian nights : ideological variations and narrative horizons. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415366984Yamanaka, Yuriko and Tetsuko Nishio. The Arabian nights and orientalism : perspectives from East & West. I.B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN 1850437688All links retrieved January 24, 2020. 1. The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations– including unexpurgated version by Sir Richard Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material. 2. Project Bartleby edition – Stories From One Thousand and One Nights, (Lane and Poole translation). 3. (expurgated) Sir Burton...
A new translation and retelling of nineteen interlocking stories from the classic fifteenth-century Arabic collection of Shahrazad, the famous storyteller who saved herself by telling stories to a king who had her killed each night. The stories explore themes of feminism, oppression, love, and power in a historical and cultural context.
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A video and audio program that introduces the world of the stories of Shahrazad, who saved her life, her husband's sanity, and the kingdom with her stories. Learn about the history, culture, and influence of the collection of stories from medieval Persia to modern adaptations.
