Relief After Hardship: The Ottoman Turkish Model for the Thousand and One Days

by Ulrich Marzolph

The Thousand and One Days, a companion collection to The Thousand and One Nights, was published in 1710-1712 by French Orientalist scholar Fran ois P tis de la Croix who advertised it as the faithful, albeit selective translation of a Persian work. Subsequent research has found that The Thousand and One Days is actually the adapted translation of a fifteenth-century anonymous Ottoman Turkish compilation titled Relief after Hardship. This compilation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814342779
• ISBN13: 9780814342770
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"