Arabian Nights - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Arabian Nights - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Marzolph, Ulrich

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060657
Doc. NO	:	ALei1054
Main Entry	:	Marzolph, Ulrich
Title & Author	:	Arabian Nights - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Marzolph, Ulrich
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(6,251 words)
Abstract	:	Arabian Nights , the work known in Arabic as Alf layla wa-layla , “A thousand nights and one night,” is an oriental collection of stories that is constituted by a frame-tale focused on the narrator, Shahrazād, telling stories for a thousand nights. Derived from a pre-Islamic Iranian prototype that relied partly on Indian elements, the collection gained fame in the Western world by way of the French translation adapted from various Arabic sources and published by Antoine Galland between 1704 and 1717. Commonly known in English as The Arabian
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1054.pdf