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This translation first published in Penguin Classics 2014
This edition published in Penguin Classics 2015
Translation copyright © Malcolm C. Lyons, 2014
Introduction, Further Reading and Glossary copyright © Robert Irwin, 2014
Merchant from Isfahan Flying, from ‘The Wonders of the Creation and the Curiosities of Existence’ by Zakariya’ibn Muhhamed al-Qazwini (gouache on paper) (detail of 158678), Islamic School, (14th century)/Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia/Giraudon/Bridgeman Images
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Introduction
Further Reading
TALES OF THE MARVELLOUS
AND
NEWS OF THE STRANGE
1. The Story of the King of the Two Rivers, Saihun and Jaihun, His Son Kaukab and His Experience with the Chamberlain Ghasb. An Astonishing Tale.
2. The Story of Talha, the Son of the Qadi of Fustat, and What Happened to Him with His Slave Girl Tuhfa and How She Was Taken Away from Him and What Hardships Befell Until There Was Relief After Grief.
3. The Story of the Six Men: The Hunchbacked, the One-Eyed, the Blind, the Crippled, the Man Whose Lips Had Been Cut Off and the Seller of Glassware.
4. The Story of the Four Hidden Treasures and the Strange Things That Occurred.
The First Quest.
The Story of the Second Quest, with Its Marvels and Terrors.
The Story of the Third Quest, for the Crown.
The Story of the Fourth Quest, for the Golden Tube.
5. The Story of the Forty Girls and What Happened to Them with the Prince.
6. The Story of Julnar of the Sea and the Marvels of the Sea Encountered by Her.
7. The Story of ‘Arus al-‘Ara’is and Her Deceit, As Well As the Wonders of the Seas and Islands.
8. The Story of Budur and ‘Umair Son of Jubair al-Shaibani with al-Khali‘ the Damascan, with News and Poetry about Them.
9. The Story of Abu Disa, Nicknamed the Bird, and the Marvels of His Strange and Comical Story.
10. The Story of Sul and Shumul with Reports and Poetry, and How Shumul Was Abducted, As Well As What Ordeals Her Cousin Sul Faced and How the Two Were Reunited. It Is a Marvellous Tale.
11. The Story of Abu Muhammad the Idle and the Marvels He Encountered with the Ape As Well As the Marvels of the Seas and Islands.
12. The Story of Miqdad and Mayasa, Together with Poetry and Reports, and the Conversion of Miqdad and Mayasa at the Hand of ‘Ali Son of Abu Talib, the Exalted by God.
13. The Story of Sakhr and al-Khansa’ and of Miqdam and Haifa’. With Poetry and Prose.
14. The Story of Sa‘id Son of Hatim al-Bahili and the Marvels He Encountered at Sea and with the Monk Simeon.
15. The Story of Muhammad the Foundling and Harun al-Rashid.
16. The Story of Ashraf and Anjab and the Marvellous Things That Happened to Them.
17. The Story of the Talisman Mountain and Its Marvels.
18. The Story of Mahliya and Mauhub and the White-Footed Gazelle. It Contains Strange and Marvellous Things.
Glossary
Acknowledgements
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MALCOLM C. LYONS is also the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of the complete Arabian Nights. He was Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University and is a life fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is one of the world's leading experts on classical Arabic literature.
ROBERT IRWIN’s books include For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages, The Arabian Nights: A Companion and (as editor) The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabian Literature. He also introduced and edited the Penguin Classics Arabian Nights.