Islam in English LiteraturePrinted at the American Press, 1939 - 258 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 28
Page 79
... Arabian Nights ' Entertainment ( better named The Thousand and One Nights , translating the Arabic , Alf Layla wa - Layla ) was translated from the French version of Antoine Galland . Galland's twelve volumes ap- peared between 1704 and ...
... Arabian Nights ' Entertainment ( better named The Thousand and One Nights , translating the Arabic , Alf Layla wa - Layla ) was translated from the French version of Antoine Galland . Galland's twelve volumes ap- peared between 1704 and ...
Page 92
... Arabian Nights . The plot combines two themes not entirely unrelated : the notion that women have no souls , and the singular behaviour of the sultan in the Arabian Nights who marries a series of wives and has each one executed the ...
... Arabian Nights . The plot combines two themes not entirely unrelated : the notion that women have no souls , and the singular behaviour of the sultan in the Arabian Nights who marries a series of wives and has each one executed the ...
Page 140
... Arabian Nights is open to question . On his journey to Syria the Greek sailors entertained him with a tale which he recognized as a “ Night " in modified form . He " became strongly impressed with a notion that they [ the Nights ] must ...
... Arabian Nights is open to question . On his journey to Syria the Greek sailors entertained him with a tale which he recognized as a “ Night " in modified form . He " became strongly impressed with a notion that they [ the Nights ] must ...
Contents
THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE | 1 |
THE AGE OF DRYDEN | 19 |
THE AGE OF POPE | 54 |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Addison Alcoran Aleppo Algiers anonymous Arabian Nights Arabic Byron caliph Carlyle Carlyle's century character Christian Christian heresy conquest Constantinople contains Cromwell Crusades daughter death drama Dryden East Egypt empire faith French Gibbon Granada Hajji Baba hammad Hārūn heaven heresy Heroes heroic Higden holy Houris Ibid impostor India interest Islam Islamic allusions James John Journey king Koran Lady learned lecture legend Letters London lover Mahomet Mahometan Mecca Mohammed Moore moral Morier Morocco Moslem Mufti Muḥam Muḥammad Mustapha Ockley opinion oriental tale Paradise period Persia pigeon pilgrimage play poem poet Poetical polygamy Prideaux Prophet religion religious Renaissance romance Sale's Saracens says scene Scott Selim Sergius Siege Siege of Damascus slave Solyman soul Southey Spain story sultan sūrah sword Syria Tamerlane tells Thalaba theme Thomas tion tragedy translation Travels truth Turkey Turkish Turks Vathek William women worship writers