Muhsin Mahdi

Husain Haddawy

A translation based on a reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version of the famous tales offers the stories told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse.

The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition)

Daniel Heller-Roazen

This Norton Critical Edition includes twenty-eight tales from The Arabian Nights translated by Husain Haddawy on the basis of the oldest existing Arabic manuscript.

The Arabian Nights

A Study in the Philosophic Foundation of the Science of Culture (Phoenix books)

Ibn Khaldun's Philosophy of History

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. The stories of ?The Arabian Nights ?(and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, vivacious erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. No one knows exactly when a given story originated, and many circulated orally for centuries before being written down; but in the process of telling and retelling, they were modified to reflect the general life and customs of the Arab society that adapted them—a distinctive synthesis that marks the cultural and artistic history of Islam. This translation is of the complete text of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and considered to be the most authentic.

This book, first published in 1957, is the study of 14th-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, who founded a special science to consider history and culture, based on the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle and their Muslim followers. In no other field has the revolt of modern Western thought against traditional philosophy been so far-reaching in its consequences as in the field of history. Ibn Khaldun realized that history is more immediately related to action than political philosophy because it studies the actual state of man and society. He found that the ancients had not made history the object of an independent science, and thought it was important to fill this gap. A factual acquaintance with the conclusions of Ibn Khaldun’s reflections on history is not the same as the full comprehension of their theoretical significance. When these fundamental questions are answered, it becomes possible to pose the specific question of the relation of Ibn Khaldun’s philosophy of history, or his new science of culture, to other practical sciences and, particularly, to the art of history. After an exposition of the major trends of Islamic historiography, part of this book attempts to answer this question through the analysis of the method and intention of the sections of the ‘History’ where Ibn Khaldun himself examines the works of major Muslim historians, shows the necessity of the new science of culture, and distinguishes it from other practical sciences.

A Study in the Philosophic Foundation of the Science of Culture

Ibn Khaldûn's Philosophy of History

The Thousand and One Nights (alf Layla Wa-layla): Introduction

The thousand and one nights

Die nächtlichen Schilderungen von Schahrasad, mit denen sie den grausamen König Schahriyar verzaubert und so ihre Hinrichtung immer wieder aufschiebt, entführen den Leser in die Welt der Basare und Karawansereien, der weisen Kalifen und verschlagenen Händler, der vornehmen Damen und klugen Ehefrauen, der mächtigen Zauberinnen und bösen Dämonen. Diese Neuübersetzung von „Tausendundeine Nacht“ macht, dreihundert Jahre nachdem das Werk durch Antoine Galland in Europa bekannt wurde, erstmals die älteste arabische Fassung in deutscher Sprache zugänglich. Frei von allen europäischen Übermalungen, Ausschmückungen und Prüderien der letzten Jahrhunderte lädt diese Ausgabe ein, die wahrscheinlich berühmteste Geschichtensammlung der Welt neu zu entdecken.

Tausendundeine Nacht

This volume of Indexes and an extensive English introduction completes the publication of the critical edition of The Thousand and One Nights, of which the first two volumes, the Arabic text and commentary, were published in 1984. For the first time, the oldest manuscript of this famous Arabic text is now completely accessible to scholars and interested readers. This third and final volume, which completes painstaking work of more than three decades, magnificently adds to the important and pioneering work by Muhsin Mahdi which has been lauded by so many.

من اصوله العربية الاولى

كتاب الف ليلة وليلة

Tzvetan Todorov

Wayne State University Press

Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Michael Cooperson

Muhsin Jassim Ali

Heinz Grotzfeld

Nabia Abbott

Gustave E. von Grunebaum

Solomon D. Goitein

Peter Heath

Jamel-Eddine Bencheikh

Andras Hamori

Roger Allen

Peter D. Molan

An authoritative guide to research inspired by the Arabian Nights, containing sixteen influential essays.

The Arabian Nights Reader

Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—new deluxe trade paperback editions of the beloved stories. Husain Haddawy’s rapturously received translation of The Arabian Nights is based on a landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version. Readers of this classic will also want to own Sindbad, a collection of four later stories associated with the Arabian Nights tradition, including “Sindbad the Sailor” and “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.”

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