Motif Index of the Thousand and One Nights

by Hasan M. El-Shamy

In 1704 the French Orientalist Antoin Galland introduced to the Western world a translation of The Thousand and One Nights. Over the course of two subsequent centuries, numerous editions followed. Many of these, like Galland's, included texts of stories not found in the indigenous manuscripts of the Nights but selected by the European editors from other literary and oral collections of ordinary folktales and legends. Thus, the original work acquired...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025334834X
• ISBN13: 9780253348340
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 696 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.4"