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Arabian Nights and Days Paperback - 1995

by Naguib Mahfouz

Published in Arabic in 1982, this imaginative and magical novel is a retelling of the tales of the Arabian Nights. Shaharazad, Maarouf the Cobbler, Aladdin, Sinbad, and even genies people the 17 different sections, set in an Islamic city during medieval times.


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The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

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A renowned Nobel Prize-winning novelist refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters.

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  • Title Arabian Nights and Days
  • Author Naguib Mahfouz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1995-09-15
  • ISBN 9780385469012 / 0385469012
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.28 x 0.52 in (20.32 x 13.41 x 1.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Islamic countries, Didactic fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94006457
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • New York Times, 12/03/1995, Page 86
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/1995, Page 0

About the author

Naguib Mahfouz was born in Cairo in 1911 and began writing when he was seventeen. His nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories range from re-imaginings of ancient myths to subtle commentaries on contemporary Egyptian politics and culture. Of his many works, most famous is The Cairo Trilogy, consisting of Palace Walk (1956), Palace of Desire (1957), and Sugar Street (1957), which focuses on a Cairo family through three generations, from 1917 until 1952. In 1988, he was the first writer in Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in August 2006.

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