| The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla Wa-Layla), Volume 3 Introduction and Indexes Contributor(s): Mahdi, Muhsin S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004101063 ISBN-13: 9789004101067 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $339.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: Arabic Published: August 1994 Annotation: This volume of Indexes and an extensive English introduction completes the publication of the critical edition of "The Thousand and One Nights, of which the first two volumes, the Arabic text and commentary, were published in 1984. For the first time, the oldest manuscript of this famous Arabic text is now completely accessible to scholars and interested readers. This third and final volume, which completes painstaking work of more than three decades, magnificently adds to the important and pioneering work by Muhsin Mahdi which has been lauded by so many. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Middle Eastern - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Religion | Islam - General |
| Dewey: 398.22 |
| LCCN: 86142693 |
| Series: Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla Wa-Layla) |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.56" W x 9.65" (1.80 lbs) 385 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume of Indexes and an extensive English introduction completes the publication of the critical edition of The Thousand and One Nights, of which the first two volumes, the Arabic text and commentary, were published in 1984. For the first time, the oldest manuscript of this famous Arabic text is now completely accessible to scholars and interested readers. This third and final volume, which completes painstaking work of more than three decades, magnificently adds to the important and pioneering work by Muhsin Mahdi which has been lauded by so many. |