The Arabian Nights in Historical Context: Between East and West

by Felicity Nussbaum and Saree Makdisi

Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199554153
• ISBN13: 9780199554157
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"