The False Caliph

45
The False Caliph ROBERT G. HAMPSON 1 heat or no heat, the windows have to be shut. nights like this, the wind winds down through the mountain passes and itches the skin on the backs of necks: anything can happen. 2 voices on the radio drop soundless as spring rain into the murmur of general conversation. his gloved hands tap lightly on the table-top as he whistles tunelessly to himself. his partner picks through a pack of cards, plucks out the jokers and lays down a mat face down in front of him. 285

Transcript of The False Caliph

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The False Caliph ROBERT G. HAMPSON

1

heat or no heat, the windows have to be shut. nights like this, the wind winds down through the mountain passes and itches the skin on the backs of necks:

anything can happen.

2

voices on the radio drop soundless as spring rain into the murmur of general conversation.

his gloved hands tap lightly on the table-top as he whistles tunelessly to himself.

his partner picks through a pack of cards, plucks out the jokers and lays down a mat face down in front of him.

285

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286 The 'Arabian Nights' in English Literature

the third hones his knife on the sole of his boot:

tests its edge with his thumb.

3

Harry can't sleep.

Mezz and the boys, night after night, have sought means to amuse him­to cheat the time till dawn brings the tiredness that finally takes him.

but tonight everything has failed.

neither card-tricks nor knife-tricks -not even the prospect of nocturnal adventures down in the old town has lifted his gloom.

they're completely at a loss.

then the stranger enters: the same build the same face the same dress

right down to the identical black leather gloves on the hands

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The False Caliph

which now tap contemptuously on the table while he whistles tunelessly as if to himself.

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Appendix W. F. Kirby's 'Comyarative Table of the Tales in the Principal Editions o the Thousand and One Nights' from fhe Burton Edition (1885).

[List of editions]

1. Galland, 1704-7 2. Caussin de Perceval, 1806 3. Gauttier, 1822 4. Scott's MS (Wortley Montague), 1797-8 5. Ditto (Anderson; marked A), 1798 6. Scott's Arabian Nights, 1811 7. Scott's Tales and Anecdotes (marked A), 1800 8. Von Hammer's MS, c. 1800 9. Zinserling, 1823

10. Lamb, 1825-6 11. Trebutien, 1828 12. Bulac text, 1835 13. Lane, 1839-41 14. Breslau text, 1835-43 15. Habicht, 1825 16. Well, 1837-41 17. Macnaghten text, 1839-42 18. Torrens, 1838 19. Payne, 1882-4 20. Payne's Tales from the Arabic (marked I, II, III), 1884 21. Calcutta text, 1884-8 22. Burton, 1885-8 23. Lady Burton, 'Prepared for household reading', 1886

As nearly all editions of the Nights are in several volumes, the volumes are indicated throughout, except in the case of some of the texts. Only those tales in No. 5, not included in No. 4, are here indicated in the same column. All tales which there is good reason to believe do not belong to the genuine Nights are marked with an asterisk.

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ker's

Sto

ry

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3

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1

1 b.

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Ree

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2 2

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of t

he J

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the

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g an

d th

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3 a.

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ant a

nd

the

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harp

ers

+

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3

2 3

18.

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ef a

nd

his

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key

+

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lish

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ver

+

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3

2 3

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Spa

rrow

an

d t

he P

eaco

ck

+

-+

3

2 3

20.

Ali

Bin

Bak

kar

and

Sha

ms

AJ-

Nah

ar

5,6

3 3

2,3

1 +

2

+

4 1

+

3 +

2

3 21

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ale

of K

amar

AI-

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an

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4 3

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5

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3

2 3,

4 a.

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ah b

in A

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d N

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s S

lave

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l 9

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2

+

13

2 +

3

2 4

22.

Ala

Al-

Din

Abu

AI-

Sha

mat

9

2 +

2

+

13

2 +

3

2 4

23.

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im o

f th

e T

ribe

of

Tay

y 2

1 3

+

2 +

2

+

3 2

4 24

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a' an

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so

n o

f Z

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h an

d t

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thre

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2

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a'an

son

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dah

and

the

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3

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26.

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y of

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tayt

2

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2

+

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4 27

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nd

the

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and

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bdul

lah

son

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4 >(

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p an

d t

he N

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y 2

1 3

+

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+

3 4

32.

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Moc

k C

alip

h 9

2 2

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+

2 +

4

2 +

3

3 4

33.

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the

Per

sian

2

1 3

+

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+

3 3

4 34

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aru

n A

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ashi

d an

d t

he S

lave

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l an

d t

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mam

Abu

Yus

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+

2 +

4

3 4

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ho

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self

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4

3 4

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far

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s de

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g of

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chol

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2 1

3 +

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4 41

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and

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mu

rru

d

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3 4

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es o

f Jub

ayr

Bin

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ayr

and

th

e L

ady

Bud

ur

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1 +

2

+

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4

3 4

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Man

of

Al-

Yam

an a

nd

his

six

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lave

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ls

2 1

3 +

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2 +

4

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n A

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d an

d t

he D

amse

l an

d

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Abu

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as

2 1

3 +

-

+

2 +

4

4 ~

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Man

wh

o s

tole

the

dis

h of

gol

d it

w

here

on t

he d

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te

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3 +

2

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The

Sha

rper

of

Ale

xand

ria

and

the

C

hief

of

Polic

e 2

1 3

+

2 4

+

4 3

4 47

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l-M

alik

Al-

Nas

ir a

nd

th

e th

ree

Chi

efs

of P

olic

e 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 a.

S

tory

of

the

Chi

ef o

f th

e ne

w C

airo

P

olic

e 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 b.

S

tory

of

the

Chi

ef o

f th

e B

uJak

P

olic

e 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 c.

Sto

ry o

f th

e C

hief

of

the

Old

Cai

ro

Poli

ce

2 1

3 +

2

+

4 +

4

3 4

48.

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Thi

ef a

nd t

he S

hrof

f -

--

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 49

. T

he C

hief

of

the

Kus

Pol

ice

and

the

Sha

rper

-

--

+

-+

4

3 4

50.

Ibra

him

bin

al-

Mah

di a

nd

the

M

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51.

The

Wom

an w

hose

han

ds

wer

e cu

t of

f fo

r al

msg

ivin

g 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 52

. T

he d

evo

ut

Isra

elit

e 2

1 3

+

2 4

+

4 3

4 53

. A

bu H

assa

n A

l-Z

iyad

i an

d t

he

Kho

rasa

n M

an

2 1

3 +

2

4 +

4

3 4

54.

The

Poo

r M

an a

nd

his

Fri

end

in N

eed

--

-+

2

+

4 +

4

3 4

55.

The

Rui

ned

Man

wh

o b

ecam

e ri

ch

agai

n th

rou

gh

a d

ream

2

1 3

+

2 +

4

+

4 3

4 56

. C

alip

h A

l-M

utaw

akki

l an

d h

is

Con

cubi

ne M

ahbu

bah

2 1

3 +

2

4 +

4

3 4

57.

War

dan

the

But

cher

's A

dven

ture

w

ith

the

Lad

y an

d t

he B

ear

2 1

3 +

-

4 +

4

4 58

. T

he K

ing'

s D

augh

ter

and

the

Ape

2

1 3

+

-+

4

4 59

. T

he E

bony

Hor

se

11

7 5

5 2

--

+

2 +

9

1 +

4

3 5

60.

Uns

Al-

Wuj

ud a

nd

the

Waz

ir's

D

augh

ter

Ros

e-in

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d 6

4 6

2 1

1 +

2

+

11

2 +

4

3 5

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61.

Abu

Now

as w

ith

the

Thr

ee B

oys

and

~ "'

the

Cal

iph

Har

un

Al-

Ras

hid

2 1

-+

-

+

+

4 5

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62.

Abd

ulla

h bi

n M

a'am

ar w

ith

the

Man

):<

• of

Bas

sora

h an

d h

is S

lave

-Gir

l 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

3 5

63.

The

Lov

ers

of t

he

Ban

u O

zrah

-

--

+

2 +

11

4

+

4 3

5 64

. T

he W

azir

of

Al-

Yam

an a

nd

his

y

ou

ng

Bro

ther

2

1 3

+

-+

4

5 65

. T

he L

oves

of

the

Boy

an

d G

irl

at

Sch

ool

2 1

3 +

2

4 +

4

3 5

66.

Al-

Mut

alam

mis

an

d h

is W

ife

Um

aym

ah

--

-+

-

+

4 +

4

3 5

67.

Har

un

Al-

Ras

hid

and

Zub

ayda

h in

th

e B

ath

2 1

3 +

-

+

+

4 5

68.

Har

un

Al-

Ras

hid

and

the

Thr

ee P

oets

2

1 3

+

-+

2

+

4 5

69.

Mus

'ab

bin

Al-

Zub

ayr

and

Ayi

shah

hi

s W

ife

2 1

3 +

-

+

+

4 5

70.

Abu

Al-

Asw

ad a

nd

his

Sla

ve-G

irl

--

+

-+

+

4

5 N

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2 1

3 +

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5 72

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aru

n A

l-R

ashi

d an

d t

he T

hree

S

lave

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ls

--

+ -

+ +

4 5

73.

The

Mil

ler

and

his

Wif

e 2

1 3

+

2 +

4

3 5

74.

The

Sim

plet

on a

nd

the

Sha

rper

--

-+

2+

4

+

4 3

5

75.

The

Kaz

i A

bu Y

usuf

wit

h H

aru

n A

l-~

Ras

hid

and

Qu

een

Zub

ayda

h A

A

-

--

+ -

+ +

4 3

5 ~

76.

The

Cal

iph

Al-

Hak

im a

nd

the

i[.

M

erch

ant

2 1

3 +

2 +

4 +

4 3

5 ~·

77.

Kin

g K

isra

Anu

shir

wan

an

d t

he

Vill

age

Dam

sel

2 1

3 +

2 +

4 +

4 3

5 78

. T

he W

ater

-car

rier

an

d t

he

Gol

dsm

ith'

s W

ife

2 1

3 +

-+

+ 4

3 5

79.

Khu

srau

and

Shi

rin

and

the

Fis

herm

an

2 1

3 +

2 +

+ 4

3 5

80.

Yah

ya b

in K

hali

d an

d t

he P

oor

Man

-

--

+ 2

+ +

4 3

5 81

. M

oham

med

ai-

Am

in a

nd

the

Sla

ve-

Gir

l -

--

+ 2

+ +

4 3

5 82

. T

he S

ons

of Y

ahya

bin

Kha

lid

and

S

aid

bin

Sal

im

--

-+

2

+

4 3

5 83

. T

he W

oman

's T

rick

aga

inst

her

H

usb

and

2

1 3

+ 2

+ +

4 3

5 84

. T

he D

evou

t W

oman

an

d t

he T

wo

Wic

ked

Eld

ers

2 1

3 +

-+

4 +

4 3

5

Page 12: The False Caliph

85.

Ja'a

far

the

Bar

mec

ide

and

the

old

B

adaw

i 2

1 3

+ -

+ 4

+ 4

3 5

86.

Om

ar b

in A

I-K

hatt

ab a

nd

the

You

ng

Bad

awi

2 1

1 3

+ 2

+ 4

3 5

87.

AI-

Maa

mun

an

d t

he P

yram

ids

of

Egy

pt

2 1

3 +

-4

+ 4

3 5

88.

The

Thi

ef a

nd t

he

Mer

chan

t 2

1 3

+ 2

+ 4

+ 4

3 5

89.

Mas

rur

the

Eun

uch

and

Ibn

AI-

Kar

ibi

2 1

3 +

2 +

4 +

4 3

5 90

. T

he D

evot

ee P

rinc

e 2

1 3

3 +

2 +

4 +

4 3

5 91

. T

he S

choo

lmas

ter

wh

o f

ell

in L

ove

by R

epor

t 2

1 3

+ -

+ 4

+ 4

3 5

92.

The

Foo

lish

Dom

inie

-

-+

-+

+ 4

3 5

93.

The

Ill

iter

ate

wh

o s

et u

p f

or a

S

choo

lmas

ter

2 1

3 +

2 +

+ 4

3 5

94.

The

Kin

g an

d th

e V

irtu

ous

Wif

e 2

1 3

+ -

4 +

4 5

~

95.

Abd

AI-

Rah

man

the

Mag

hrib

i's s

tory

~

of t

he R

ukh

2 1

3 +

2 +

4 3

5 96

. A

di B

in Z

ayd

and

the

Pri

nces

s H

ind

2 1

3 +

-+

+ 4

3 5

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. D

i'ibi

l A

l-K

huza

'i w

ith

the

Lad

y an

d >(

• M

usli

m b

in A

l-W

alid

2

1 3

+ -

+ +

4 3

5 98

. Is

aac

of M

osul

an

d t

he M

erch

ant

2 1

3 +

-+

+ 4

3 5

99.

The

Thr

ee U

nfor

tuna

te L

over

s 2

1 3

+ -

+ +

4 3

5 10

1. T

he L

over

s of

the

Ban

u T

ayy

2 1

3 +

2 +

+ 4

3 5

102.

The

Mad

Lov

er

2 1

3 +

2 +

+ 4

3 5

103.

The

Pri

or w

ho b

ecam

e a

Mos

lem

2

1 2

3 +

2 +

4 +

4 3

5 10

4. T

he L

oves

of

Abu

Isa

an

d K

urra

t A

I-A

yn

2 1

3 +

2 +

+ 4

3 5

105.

AI-

Am

in a

nd h

is U

ncle

Ibr

ahim

bin

A

I-M

ahdi

2

1 3

+ -

+ +

4 5

106.

AI-

Fat

h bi

n K

haka

n an

d A

I-M

utaw

akki

l 2

1 3

+ -

+ +

4 5

107.

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Man

's d

ispu

te w

ith

the

Lea

rned

~

Wom

an c

once

rnin

g th

e re

lati

ve

exce

llen

ce o

f m

ale

and

fem

ale

2 1

3 +

-+

+ 4

5 ~

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Suw

ayd

and

the

pre

tty

Old

W

oman

2

1 3

+

-+

+

4

5 10

9. A

li bi

n T

ahir

an

d t

he g

irl

Muu

nis

2 1

3 +

-

+

+

4 5

110.

The

Wom

an w

ho

had

a B

oy,

and

the

ot

her

wh

o h

ad a

Man

to

love

r 2

1 3

+

-+

+

4

5 11

1. A

li th

e C

aire

ne a

nd

the

Hau

nte

d

Hou

se i

n B

aghd

ad

2 1

1 +

2

+

4 +

4

3 5

~

112.

The

Pil

grim

Man

and

the

Old

Wom

an

2 1

3 +

2

+

4 3

5 ~

113.

A

bu A

l-H

usn

and

his

Sla

ve-g

irl

~

Taw

addu

d 2

1 1

+

-+

4

3 5

;::! ~

114.

The

Ang

el o

f D

eath

wit

h th

e P

roud

>:;

· K

ing

and

the

Dev

out

Man

2

1 3

+

-4

+

5 3

5 11

5. T

he A

ngel

of

Dea

th a

nd

th

e R

ich

Kin

g 2

1 3

+

-4

+

5 3

5 11

6. T

he A

ngel

of

Dea

th a

nd

th

e K

ing

of

the

Chi

ldre

n of

Isra

el

2 1

3 3

+

2 +

5

3 5

117.

Isk

anda

r zu

Al-

Kam

ayn

and

a c

erta

in

Tri

be o

f P

oor

Folk

2

1 3

+

-4

+

5 3

5 11

8. T

he R

ight

eous

ness

of

Kin

g A

nush

irw

an

2 1

3 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

119.

The

Jew

ish

Kaz

i an

d h

is P

ious

Wif

e 2

1 3

+

-4

+

5 3

5 12

0. T

he S

hipw

reck

ed W

oman

an

d h

er

Chi

ld

2 1

3 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

121.

The

Pio

us B

lack

Sla

ve

2 1

3 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

122.

The

Dev

out

Tra

y-m

aker

an

d h

is W

ife

2 1

3 +

2

4 +

5

3 5

Page 14: The False Caliph

123.

Al-

Hai

jai b

in Y

t.isu

f and

the

Pio

us

Man

2

1 3

+

-+

5

3 5

124.

The

Bla

cksm

ith

who

cou

ld H

andl

e Fi

re W

itho

ut H

urt

2

1 3

+

-4

+

5 3

5 12

5. T

he D

evot

ee t

o w

hom

All

ah g

ave

a C

loud

for

Ser

vice

an

d t

he D

evou

t K

ing

2 1

3 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

126.

The

Mos

lem

Cha

mpi

on a

nd

the

C

hris

tian

Dam

sel

2 1

3 +

2

4 +

5

3 5

127.

The

Chr

isti

an K

ing'

s D

augh

ter

and

the

Mos

lem

2

1 3

+

-+

5

3 5

128.

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Pro

phet

an

d t

he J

usti

ce o

f P

rovi

denc

e 2

1 3

+

2 4

+

5 3

5 12

9. T

he F

erry

man

of

the

Nile

an

d t

he

Her

mit

2

1 -

+

-+

5

3 5

l 13

0. T

he I

slan

d K

ing

and

the

Pio

us

Isra

elit

e 6

2 1

3 +

-

10

4 +

5

3 5

131.

Abu

Al-

Has

an a

nd

Abu

Ja'

afar

the

;:::

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1.

Lep

er

2 1

3 +

-

+

5 3

5 ><

· 13

2. T

he Q

uee

n o

f th

e S

erpe

nts

2 1

3 1

+

-4

+

5 3

5 a.

T

he A

dven

ture

of

Bul

ukiy

a 2

1 3

1 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

b.

The

Sto

ry o

f Jan

shah

2

1 3

1 +

-

4 +

5

3 5

133.

Sin

dbad

the

Sea

man

and

Sin

dbad

the

Lan

dsm

an

3 2

2 2

3 -

-+

3

+

2 1

+

5 +

3

6 a.

T

he F

irst

Voy

age

of S

indb

ad t

he

Sea

man

3

2 2

2 3

--

+

3 +

2

1 +

5

+

3 6

b.

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ond

Voy

age

of S

indb

ad th

e S

eam

an

3 2

2 2

3 -

-+

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+

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6 c.

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rd V

oyag

e of

Sin

dbad

the

S

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an

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3 -

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he F

ourt

h V

oyag

e of

Sin

dbad

the

Sea

man

3

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2 3

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3 +

2

1 +

5

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e. T

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I. T

he W

ife'

s D

evic

e to

che

at h

er

Hu

sban

d

A

+ 3

+ 15

+

5 6

m.

The

Gol

dsm

ith

and

the

Cas

hmer

e S

ingi

ng-g

irl

1 A

+

3 +

1 1

+ 5

4 6

n.

The

Man

wh

o n

ever

lau

ghed

d

uri

ng

the

res

t of

his

day

s A

A

+

3 +

15

+ 5

4 6

o. T

he K

ing'

s S

on a

nd

the

M

erch

ant's

Wif

e A

A

+

-+

15

+ 5

4 6

p.

The

Pag

e w

ho

fei

gned

to

know

th

e S

peec

h of

Bir

ds

+ -

+ 5

4 6

q. T

he L

ady

and

her

five

Sui

tors

A

A

+

-+

5 4

6 r.

The

Thr

ee W

ishe

s or

the

Man

who

lo

nged

to

see

the

Nig

ht o

f P

ower

A

+

-+

+ 5

4 6

s. T

he S

tole

n N

eckl

ace

A

A

+ 3

+ 15

+

5 4

6 ;:::.

.. t.

The

Tw

o P

igeo

ns

+ 3

+ 5

4 6

~

u.

Pri

nce

Beh

ram

an

d t

he P

rinc

ess

AI-

"" D

atm

a A

A

+

3 +

15

+ 5

4 6

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v.

The

Hou

se w

ith

the

Bel

vede

re

A

A

+ 3

+ 15

+

5 4

6 H.

w.

The

Kin

g's

Son

an

d t

he I

frit

's

Mis

tres

s +

-+

5 4

6 X

. T

he S

anda

l-w

ood

Mer

chan

t an

d th

e S

harp

ers

+ 3

+ 15

+

5 4

6 y.

T

he D

ebau

chee

an

d t

he T

hree

-ye

ar-o

ld C

hild

+

-+

+ 5

4 6

z. T

he S

tole

n P

urse

+

3 +

15

+ 5

4 6

aa.

The

Fox

an

d t

he F

olk

--

+ 15

-

5 4

6 13

6. J

udar

an

d h

is B

reth

ren

3 2

1 1

+ 3

+ 2

+ 6

4 6

137.

The

His

tory

of G

hari

b an

d h

is B

roth

er

A ji

b 3

2 1

+ -

+ +

6 4

6,7

138.

Otb

ah a

nd

Ray

ya

3 2

3 +

3 +

6 4

7 13

9. H

ind,

dau

gh

ter

of A

I-N

u' m

an a

nd

~

Al-

Haj

jaj

3 2

3 +

-+

6 4

7 .....

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Khu

zaym

ah b

in B

ishr

an

d E

krim

ah

al-F

ayya

z 3

2 3

+

3 4

+

6 4

7 14

1. Y

unus

the

Scr

ibe

and

the

Cal

iph

Wal

id b

in S

ahl

3 2

3 +

-

4 +

6

4 7

142.

Har

un A

l-R

ashi

d an

d t

he A

rab

Gir

l 3

2 3

+

-+

6

4 7

143.

A

l-A

sma'

i an

d t

he t

hree

gir

ls o

f B

asso

rah

3 -

-+

-

+

6 7

)..

144.

Ib

rahi

m o

f M

osul

an

d t

he D

evil

3

-+

-

+

6 4

7 ~

145.

The

Lov

ers

of th

e B

anu

Uzr

ah

6 4

6 3

-+

3

11

+

6 4

7 14

6. T

he B

adaw

i an

d h

is W

ife

3 2

3 +

-

+

6 4

7 ;::

! $:

I. 14

7. T

he L

over

s of

Bas

sora

h 3

2 3

+

-+

6

4 7

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148.

Ish

ak o

f M

osul

an

d h

is M

istr

ess

and

th

e D

evil

3

2 3

+

-+

6

4 7

149.

The

Lov

ers

of A

l-M

edin

ah

3 2

3 +

3

+

6 4

7 15

0. A

l-M

alik

Al-

Nas

ir a

nd

his

Waz

ir

3 2

3 +

-

+

6 4

7 15

1. T

he R

ogue

ries

of

Dal

ilah

the

Cra

fty

and

her

Dau

ghte

r Z

ayna

b th

e C

oney

-Cat

cher

3

2 2

+

-+

4

+

6 4

7 a.

T

he A

dven

ture

s of

Mer

cury

Ali

of

Cai

ro

3 2

2 +

-

+

4 +

6

4 7

152.

Ard

ashi

r an

d H

aya

Al-

Nuf

us

7 3

2 1

2 +

-

+

2 +

6

4 7

153.

]ul

nar

the

Sea

-bor

n an

d h

er s

on K

ing

Bad

r B

asim

of

Per

sia

7 4

3 3,

4 3

--

+

3 6

3 +

7

4 7

154.

Kin

g M

oham

med

bin

Sab

aik

and

the

M

erch

ant H

asan

1

3 2

2 +

3

+

-+

7

4 7

a.

Sto

ry o

f P

rinc

e S

ayf

Al-

Mul

uk a

nd

th

e P

rinc

ess

Bad

i'a A

l-Ja

mal

1

3,4

2 2

+

3 +

2

+

7 4,

5 7,

8

Page 18: The False Caliph

155.

Has

an o

f B

asso

rah

3 4

3 2

2 +

3

+

2 +

7

5 8

156.

Kha

lifa

h th

e F

ishe

rman

of

Bag

hdad

4

3 2

+

3 -

2 +

7

5 8

a.

The

sam

e fr

om t

he B

resl

au E

diti

on

-+

7

5 8

157.

Mas

rur

and

Zay

n al

-Maw

assi

f 4

3 2

2 +

-

+

+

8 5

8 15

8. A

li N

ur a

l-D

in a

nd

Mir

iam

the

Gir

dle-

Gir

l 4

3 2

2 +

-

+

+

8 5

8,9

159.

The

Man

of

Upp

er E

gypt

an

d h

is

Fra

nkis

h W

ife

4 3

-3

+

-+

+

8

5 9

160.

The

Rui

ned

Man

of

Bag

had

and

his

S

lave

-Gir

l 4

3 -

3 +

3

+

4 +

8

5 9

161.

Iqn

g Ja

li'a

d of

Hin

d an

d h

is W

azir

S

him

as,

foll

owed

by

the

hist

ory

of

Kin

g W

ird

Kha

n, s

on o

f K

ing

Jali

'ad,

wit

h hi

s W

omen

an

d

Waz

irs

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 a.

T

he M

ouse

and

the

Cat

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

b.

The

Fak

ir a

nd

his

Jar

of

But

ter

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 ::t.

c.

The

Fis

hes

and

the

Cra

b 4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

~ d.

T

he C

row

an

d t

he S

erpe

nt

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 ;::s

$:

I.

e. T

he W

ild

Ass

and

the

Jac

kal

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 >(

f. T

he U

njus

t K

ing

and

the

Pilg

rim

P

rinc

e 4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

g.

The

Cro

ws

and

the

Haw

k 4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

h.

The

Ser

pent

-Cha

rmer

an

d h

is

Wif

e 4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

i. T

he S

pide

r an

d t

he W

ind

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 j.

The

Tw

o K

ings

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

k.

The

Bli

nd M

an a

nd t

he C

ripp

le

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 I.

The

Foo

lish

Fis

herm

an

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 m

. T

he B

oy a

nd

the

Thi

eves

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

n.

The

Man

an

d h

is W

ife

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 0

. T

he M

erch

ant a

nd

the

Rob

bers

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

p.

The

Jac

kals

an

d t

he W

olf

4 3

3 3

+

-+

4

+

8 5

9 q.

The

She

pher

d an

d t

he R

ogue

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

VJ

0 r.

The

Fra

ncol

in a

nd t

he T

orto

ises

4

3 3

3 +

-

+

4 +

8

5 9

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Kir

the

Dye

r an

d A

bu S

ir t

he

Bar

ber

4 3

1 3

+

3 +

4

+

8 5

9 16

3. A

bdul

lah

the

Fis

herm

an a

nd

A

bdul

lah

the

Mer

man

4

3 1

3 +

3

+

+

8 5

9 16

4. H

arun

AI-

Ras

hid

and

Abu

Has

an t

he

Mer

chan

t of

Om

an

4 3

3 +

-

+

2 +

9

6 9

165.

Ibr

ahim

and

Jam

ilah

4

3 1

3 +

3

+

9 6

9 16

6. A

bu A

I-H

asan

of

Kho

rasa

n 4

3 1

3 +

-

+

9 6

9 ~

167.

Kam

ar A

I-Z

aman

an

d t

he J

ewel

ler's

~

Wif

e 4

3 1

3 +

-

4 +

9

6 9

~

168.

Abd

ulla

h bi

n Fa

zil a

nd

his

Bro

ther

s 4

3 3

+

-+

9

6 9

169.

Ma'

aruf

the

Cob

bler

and

his

wif

e F

atim

ah

4 3

3 3

+

3 4

+

9 6

10

170.

Asl

eep

and

Aw

ake

9 5

4 4

2 +

7

1 I

I a.

S

tory

of

the

Lac

kpen

ny a

nd

the

C

ook

_ +

17

1. T

he C

alip

h O

mar

ben

Abd

ulaz

iz a

nd

th

e P

oets

-

+

2 17

2. E

l H

ejja

j an

d th

e T

hree

You

ng M

en

-+

17

3. H

arun

Er

Res

hid

and

the

Wom

an o

f th

e B

arm

ecid

es

-+

17

4. T

he T

en V

izie

rs,

or

the

His

tory

of

Kin

g A

zadb

ekht

an

d h

is S

on

8 6

-+

10

2

a.

Of

the

usel

essn

ess

of e

ndea

vour

ag

ains

t pe

rsis

tent

ill-

fort

une

aa.

Sto

ry o

f th

e U

nluc

ky M

erch

ant

8 6

-+

10

2

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b.

Of

look

ing

to t

he i

ssue

s of

aff

airs

bb

. S

tory

of

the

Mer

chan

t an

d hi

s S

ons

8 6

+

10

2 c.

Of

the

adva

ntag

es o

f P

atie

nce

cc.

Sto

ry o

f A

bou

Sab

ir

8 6

+

10

2 d.

O

f th

e ill

eff

ects

of

Pre

cipi

tati

on

dd.

Sto

ry o

f P

rinc

e B

ihza

d 8

6 +

10

2

e. O

f th

e is

sues

of

good

an

d e

vil

acti

ons

ee.

Sto

ry o

f K

ing

Dab

din

and

his

V

izie

rs

8 6

+

10

2 f.

Of

Tru

st i

n G

od

!f. S

tory

of

Kin

g B

ekht

zem

an

8 +

2

g.

Of

Cle

men

cy

gg.

Sto

ry o

f K

ing

Bih

kerd

8

6 +

10

2

. .

~

h.

Of

Env

y an

d M

alic

e ~

hh.

Sto

ry o

f H

an S

hah

and

Abo

u T

erna

n 8

6 +

10

2

I I

;:t 10:1..

z. O

f D

esti

ny,

or t

hat

whi

ch is

>:<

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ritt

en o

n t

he F

oreh

ead

ii.

Sto

ry o

f K

ing

Ibra

him

and

his

S

on

8 7

+

13

2 j.

Of

the

appo

inte

d T

erm

, w

hich

if

it be

adv

ance

d, m

ay n

ot b

e de

ferr

ed,

and

if it

be

defe

rred

, m

ay n

ot b

e ad

vanc

ed

jj.

Sto

ry o

f K

ing

Sul

eim

an S

hah

and

his

Son

s 8

+

2 k.

O

f th

e sp

eedy

Rel

ief

of G

od

kk.

Sto

ry o

f th

e P

riso

ner,

an

d h

ow

God

gav

e hi

m r

elie

f 8

+

2 17

5. J

aafe

r B

en Z

ehya

an

d A

bdul

mel

ik

~

Ben

Sal

ih t

he A

bbas

ide

+

2 I

I 17

6. E

r R

eshi

d an

d t

he B

arm

edde

s +

2

T

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l M

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d Z

ubei

deh

+

179.

En

Nu

man

an

d t

he A

rab

of th

e B

enou

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+ 18

0. F

irou

z an

d h

is W

ife

+

181.

Kin

g S

hah

Bek

ht a

nd

his

Viz

ier

Er

Reh

wan

+

14

a.

S

tory

of

the

Man

of

Kho

rass

an,

~

his

son

and

his

gov

erno

r +

14

I

I ~

b.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

inge

r an

d t

he

~ D

rugg

ist

+

14

I I

~

c. S

tory

of

the

Kin

g w

ho

kne

w t

he

>-<

quin

tess

ence

of

thin

gs

+

14

d.

Sto

ry o

f th

e R

ich

Man

wh

o g

ave

his

fair

Dau

ghte

r in

Mar

riag

e to

the

Poo

r O

ld M

an

+

14

e. S

tory

of

the

Ric

h M

an a

nd

his

W

aste

ful

Son

+

14

f.

The

Kin

g's

Son

who

fel

l in

lov

e w

ith

the

Pic

ture

+

14

g.

S

tory

of

the

Ful

ler

and

his

Wif

e +

14

h.

S

tory

of

the

Old

Wom

an,

the

Mer

chan

t, a

nd

the

Kin

g +

14

I

i. S

tory

of

the

cred

ulou

s H

usb

and

+

14

I

j. S

tory

of

the

Unj

ust

Kin

g an

d t

he

Tit

her

+

14

jj.

Sto

ry o

f D

avid

an

d S

olom

on

+

14

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k.

Sto

ry o

f th

e T

hief

an

d t

he W

oman

+

14

I.

Sto

ry o

f th

e T

hree

Men

an

d o

ur

Lor

d Je

sus

+

14

II.

The

Dis

cipl

e's

Sto

ry

+

14

m.

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ry o

f th

e D

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oned

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g w

hose

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gdom

an

d g

ood

wer

e re

stor

ed t

o hi

m

+

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n.

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ry o

f th

e M

an w

hose

cau

tion

w

as t

he c

ause

of

his

deat

h +

14

0

. S

tory

of

the

Man

wh

o w

as l

avis

h of

his

hou

se a

nd

his

vic

tual

to

one

wh

om

he

knew

not

+

14

p.

S

tory

of

the

Idio

t an

d t

he S

harp

er

+

14

q.

Sto

ry o

f K

helb

es a

nd

his

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e an

d

the

Lea

rned

Man

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14

r.

Sto

ry o

f th

e P

ious

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an

~

accu

sed

of le

wdn

ess

+

II

I ~

s. S

tory

of

the

Jour

neym

an a

nd t

he

;:t

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l +

14

II

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t. S

tory

of

the

Wea

ver

wh

o b

ecam

e >(

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hysi

cian

by

his

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e's

com

man

dmen

t +

14

II

u.

S

tory

of

the

Tw

o S

harp

ers

who

ch

eate

d ea

ch h

is f

ello

w

+

14

II

v.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

harp

ers

wit

h th

e M

oney

-cha

nger

an

d t

he A

ss

+

14

II

w.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

harp

er a

nd

the

M

erch

ants

+

14

II

w

a.

Sto

ry o

f th

e H

awk

and

the

Loc

ust

+

14

II

X.

Sto

ry o

f th

e K

ing

and

his

C

ham

berl

ain'

s W

ife.

+

14

II

xa

. S

tory

of

the

Old

Wom

an a

nd

~

the

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per'

s W

ife

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tory

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om a

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tory

of

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elm

a +

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bb.

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ry o

f th

e K

ing

of H

ind

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his

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El

Mel

ik E

z Z

ahir

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nedd

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iber

s £t

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i an

d th

e S

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en

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14

II II

a.

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st O

ffic

er's

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ry

+

14

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b.

The

Sec

ond

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icer

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tory

+

14

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II c.

T

he T

hird

Off

icer

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tory

+

14

II

II d.

T

he F

ourt

h O

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ry

+

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he F

ifth

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tory

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II

f. T

he S

ixth

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tory

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II

g.

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enth

Off

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tory

+

14

II

II h.

T

he E

ight

h O

ffic

er's

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ry

+

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ha.

The

Thi

ef's

Sto

ry

+

14

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i. T

he N

inth

Off

icer

's S

tory

+

14

II II

j. T

he T

enth

Off

icer

's S

tory

+

14

II

II k.

T

he E

leve

nth

Off

icer

's S

tory

+

14

II

II I.

The

Tw

elft

h O

ffic

er's

Sto

ry

+

14

II II

m.

The

Thi

rtee

nth

Off

icer

's S

tory

+

14

II

II

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The

Fou

rtee

nth

Off

icer

's S

tory

+

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II

II

na

. A

Mer

ry J

est

of a

Thi

ef

+

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II

II

nb.

Sto

ry o

f th

e O

ld S

harp

er

+

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II

II

0.

The

Fif

teen

th O

ffic

er's

Sto

ry

+

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II

II

p.

The

Six

teen

th O

ffic

er's

Sto

ry

+

14

II

II

183.

Abd

alla

h B

en N

afi,

and

the

Kin

g's

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of

Cas

hgba

r +

14

II

II

a.

S

tory

of

the

Dam

sel

Tuh

fet

El

Cul

oub

and

Kha

lif

Har

oun

Er

Res

hid

+

14

II

II

184.

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en's

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ft

2 3

6 14

II

+

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18

5. N

oure

ddin

Ali

of D

amas

cus

and

the

Dam

sel

Sit

t El

Mil

ah

+

15

III

II

186.

El

Abb

as a

nd

the

Kin

g's

Dau

ghte

r of

B

aghd

ad

+

15

III

II

187.

The

Tw

o K

ings

an

d t

he V

izie

r's

~

Dau

ghte

rs

+

15

III

II

~ 18

8. T

he F

avou

rite

an

d h

er L

over

+

15

II

I II

~

189.

The

Mer

chan

t of

Cai

ro a

nd

the

1:1

.. F

avou

rite

of

the

Kha

lif

El M

amou

n ><

· El

Hak

im b

i A

mri

llah

+

15

II

I II

9

&

190.

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clus

ion

4 3

3 +

3

+

15

+

III

6 10

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isto

ry o

f P

rinc

e Z

eyn

Ala

snam

8

5 4

4 6

3 II

I *1

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isto

ry o

f C

odad

ad a

nd

his

Bro

ther

s 8

5 4

4 6

3 II

I •a

. H

isto

ry o

f th

e P

rinc

e of

Der

yaba

r 8

5 4

4 6

3 II

I *1

93.S

tory

of

Ala

ddin

, or

the

Won

derf

ul

Lam

p 9,

10

5,6

4 4,

5 7,

8 3

III

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entu

res

of t

he C

alip

h H

aru

n A

I-R

ashi

d 10

6

5 5

8 3

III

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Sto

ry o

f th

e B

lind

Man

, B

aba

Abd

alla

h 10

6

5 5

8 3

III

*b.

Sto

ry o

f Si

di N

um

an

10

6 5

5 8

3 II

I V

J •c

. S

tory

of

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ia H

assa

n A

lhab

bal

10,1

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5 5

8 3

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5 10

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he A

dven

ture

s of

Ali

an

d Z

aher

of

~

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ascu

s 4

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1. T

he A

dven

ture

s of

the

Fis

herm

an,

Juda

r of

Cai

ro,

and

his

mee

ting

w

ith

the

Moo

r M

ahm

ood

and

the

S

ulta

n B

eiba

rs

4 20

2. T

he P

hysi

cian

an

d t

he y

oung

man

of

Mos

ul

1 20

3. T

he S

tory

of

the

Sul

tan

of Y

emen

an

d

his

thre

e so

ns

6 3

6 11

20

4. S

tory

of

the

Thr

ee S

harp

ers

and

the

S

ulta

n 6

3 6

11

a.

Adv

entu

res

of t

he A

bdic

ated

S

ulta

n 6

3 6

11

b.

His

tory

of

Mah

umm

ud,

Sul

tan

of C

airo

6

3 6

11

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c. S

tory

of

the

Fir

st L

unat

ic

8 6

3 6

11

d.

(Sto

ry o

f th

e S

econ

d L

unat

ic =

N

o. 1

84)

2 3

6 11

e.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

age

and

his

Pup

il

6 3

6 11

f.

Nig

ht A

dven

ture

of

the

Sul

tan

6 3

6 11

g.

S

tory

of

the

firs

t fo

olis

h m

an

3 h.

S

tory

of

the

brok

en-b

acke

d S

choo

lmas

ter

6 3

6 11

z.

Sto

ry o

f th

e w

ry-m

outh

ed

Sch

oolm

aste

r 6

3 6

11

j. T

he S

ulta

n's

seco

nd v

isit

to

the

Sis

ters

6

3 6

11

k.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

iste

rs a

nd

the

S

ulta

na,

thei

r m

othe

r 6

3 6

11

205.

Sto

ry o

f th

e A

vari

ciou

s C

auze

e an

d hi

s w

ife

6 3

6 11

~

206.

Sto

ry o

f th

e B

ang-

Eat

er a

nd

the

~ C

auze

e 6

3 6

11

a.

Sto

ry o

f th

e B

ang-

Eat

er a

nd

his

;::

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wif

e 6

3 6

11

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b.

Con

tinu

atio

n of

the

Fis

herm

an,

or

Ban

g-E

ater

's A

dven

ture

s 6

3 6

11

207.

The

Sul

tan

and

the

Tra

vell

er

Mha

moo

d A

I H

yjem

mee

6

3 6

11

a.

The

Koo

rd R

ob

ber

(= N

o. 3

3)

3 6

b.

Sto

ry o

f th

e H

usb

and

man

3

6 c.

Sto

ry o

f th

e T

hree

Pri

nces

and

E

ncha

ntin

g B

ird

6 3

6 11

d.

S

tory

of a

Sul

tan

of Y

emen

and

his

th

ree

Son

s 6

4 6

11

e. S

tory

of

the

firs

t S

harp

er in

the

Cav

e 4

6 f.

Sto

ry o

f th

e se

cond

Sha

rper

4

g.

Sto

ry o

f th

e th

ird

Sha

rper

4

h.

His

tory

of

the

Sul

tan

of H

ind

5 4

6 10

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ry o

f th

e F

ishe

rman

's S

on

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bou

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ut a

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bou

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utee

n 6

4 6

11

210.

Sto

ry o

f th

e P

rinc

e of

Sin

d, a

nd

F

atim

a, d

augh

ter

of A

mir

bin

N

aom

aun

6 4

6 11

21

1. S

tory

of

the

Lov

ers

of S

yria

, or

the

H

eroi

ne

6 4

6 11

21

2. S

tory

of

Hyj

auje

, th

e ty

rann

ical

~

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erno

r of

Con

feh,

an

d t

he

~

youn

g S

yed

4 6

~ 21

3.

Sto

ry o

f th

e S

ulta

n H

aies

he

4 -

~

214.

S

tory

tol

d by

a F

ishe

rman

4

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215.

The

Adv

entu

res

of M

azin

of

Kho

rass

aun

6 4,

5 6

10

216.

Adv

entu

re o

f H

aroo

n A

I R

ushe

ed

6 5

6 11

a.

S

tory

of

the

Sul

tan

of B

usso

rah

5 b.

N

octu

rnal

adv

entu

res

of H

aroo

n A

I R

ushe

ed

5 6

c. S

tory

rel

ated

by

Mun

jaub

5

6 d.

S

tory

of

the

Sul

tan,

the

Dir

vesh

e an

d t

he B

arbe

r's

Son

5

6 e.

Sto

ry o

f th

e B

edou

in's

Wif

e 5

f. S

tory

of

the

Wif

e an

d h

er t

wo

Gal

lant

s 5

217.

A

dven

ture

s of

Ale

efa,

dau

ghte

r of

M

here

jaun

, S

ulta

n of

Hin

d, a

nd

E

usuf

f, s

on o

f Soh

ul, S

ulta

n of

Sin

d 6

5 6

11

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218.

Adv

entu

res

of th

e th

ree

Pri

nces

, son

s of

the

Sul

tan

of C

hina

5

5 6

10

219.

Sto

ry o

f th

e G

alla

nt O

ffic

er

5 22

0. S

tory

of

anot

her

offi

cer

5 22

1. S

tory

of

the

Idio

t an

d h

is A

sses

5

222.

Sto

ry o

f th

e L

ady

of C

airo

an

d t

he

Thr

ee D

ebau

chee

s 5

223.

Sto

ry o

f th

e G

ood

Viz

ier

unju

stly

im

pris

oned

6

5 6

11

224.

Sto

ry o

f th

e P

ryin

g B

arbe

r an

d t

he

youn

g m

an o

f C

airo

5

225.

Sto

ry o

f th

e L

ady

of C

airo

an

d h

er

four

Gal

lant

s 6

5 6

11

a. T

he C

auze

e's

Sto

ry

5 6

b.

The

Syr

ian

56

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c. T

he C

aim

-mak

aum

's W

ife

6 -

~ d.

S

tory

Gol

d by

the

Fou

rth

Gal

lant

6

-22

6. S

tory

of

a H

ump-

back

ed P

orte

r 6

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I.

227.

The

age

d P

orte

r of

Cai

ro a

nd

the

><

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rtfu

l F

emal

e T

hief

6

228.

Mha

ssun

an

d h

is tr

ied

frie

nd M

ouse

h 6

22'1

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ahum

mud

Jul

bee,

son

to

an A

mee

r of

Cai

ro

6 23

0. T

he F

arm

er's

Wif

e 6

231.

The

Art

ful

Wif

e 6

232.

The

Cau

zee'

s W

ife

6 23

3. S

tory

of

the

Mer

chan

t, h

is D

augh

ter,

an

d t

he P

rinc

e of

Eer

auk

6 6

234.

The

Tw

o O

rph

ans

6 23

5. S

tory

of

anot

her

Far

mer

's W

ife

6 23

7. T

he t

wo

Wits

of

Cai

ro a

nd

Syr

ia

6 23

8. I

brah

im a

nd

Mou

seh

6 23

9. T

he V

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Abdullah of the Land and Abdullah of the Sea, 50

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of, 139

'Aboulhassan, Ali Ebn Becar and Shemselnihar, History of', 201

Abu Hassan (character), 163, 166, 224; see also 'Sleeper Awakened, The'

Abu Kir, 153, 192 Abu Nawas, 169n19 Abu Sir, 153, 192 Adams, Robert M., 233 Addison, Joseph: reads Galland

version of Nights, 1; on Barmecide banquet, 184; and Thackeray, 186; and barber's fifth brother, 197; retells 'History of Chec Chahabeddin', 241; Vision of Mirza, 8

Aden, 106 Administrative Reform

Association, 139 Afghan campaign, 160--1 Aherne, John (Yeats figure), 266-9 Aherne, Owen (Yeats figure), 247,

252-7, 260, 266 Ahmed, Prince, and the Peri

Banou, 13, 35, 52, 60, 179, 195, 204, 210--11

Aladdin (character), 19, 24, 28; in pantomime, 1, 54, 91, 236; Byron on, 20; and children, 22; parallels, 30; De Ia Mare on, 49; C. S. Lewis and, 52; Stevenson and, 193-4; Meredith and, 209-10, 213

Aladdin: story published separately, 91-2

Alcestis myth, 56 Alderson, Brian, 39-40 Alfred, Mike, 79n137 Alhambra (Spain), 58, 146 Ali Baba (character), 31, 131; in

pantomime, 1, 22, 236; Byron on, 20; parallel with Mercury, 57; Thackeray and, 186; Wells and, 225

Ali Baba: story published separately, 91

'Ali Cogia', 131, 170n22 All the Year Round (journal), 133,

158, 161 Allen and Unwin (publishers), 55 Allott, Miriam, 20 Alnaschar (character), 14-15, 185-

7, 197, 208 Alphonsus, Petrus, 5 Ambrus, Victor, 92 Amgiad, Prince (character), 35 'Amina the Ghoul Wife', 132,

184-5, 199, 250 Amina (character in 'The Porter

and the Ladies of Baghdad'), 87,99

Andersen, Hans Christian, 89 angels, orders of: Coleridge on,

119-20 Anstey, F. (Thomas Anstey

Guthrie), 46 anti-feminism, 41 anti-Modernism, 54 Arabian Nights: publishing history,

xiv, xv, 2, 6, 21; tables, 289-315; serialised, 2-3; origin of tales, 4-6; nexus of conditions favouring its use, 19; orthography, xxviii, 21-2; adapted for children, 39-40, 82-93; propagandist editions, 41; individual stories excerpted, 90--1; narrative structure, xvii, 155-7; and British knowledge of orient, 159-60; eating and drinking in, 184; see also individual tales under titles; also illustrations; translations

316

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Arabian Nights Entertainments, The (G. Newnes), 90

Arabian Tales see Heron, Robert Arberry, A. J.: Scheherazade, 55 architecture: oriental influences on,

18 'Ardesheer and Hayat en-Jufoos',

148 Arnold, Matthew, 31, 36 Art and Poetry (journal), 33 Asche, Oscar, 44 Assad, Prince (character), 35 Athenaeum (journal), 107 Atterbury, Francis, Bishop of

Rochester, 3 Auckland, George Eden, 1st Earl

of, 160-1 Auden, W. H., 50--1 Auerbach, Frank, xxv Aulnoy, Madame d', 22 Austen, Jane, 19

Bagehot, Walter, 34 Badoura, Princess (character), 35,

42,60 Bakst, Leon, 44 Ballard, J. G., 61 Ballets Russes, 44 Balzac, Honore de, 47, 57; and

Collins, 169n12; and Yeats, 264-5; Les Comediens sans le savoir, 265

Barbauld, Mrs Anna Letitia (nee Aikin), 111-12

Barber's brothers, 14, 54, 151, 182-4, 197, 235

Bardesanes (gnostic), 260 Barmecide banquet, 54, 182-4 Barth, John, 78n130 Bataille, Georges, xxiiinll Batten, J. D., 89 Beardsley, Aubrey, 40 Beattie, James, 2 Beaumont, G. S., 160 Beckett, Samuel, 78n128 Beckford, William: Vathek, 4, 19,

197 Bede, Venerable, 56

Bedreddin Hassan (character), 14, 24, 28, 30, 141n10, 187

Beer, John, 7 Bell, Mary (Yeats figure), 266-7 Beloe, William, 6-7 Benjamin, Walter, 43 Bennett, Arnold, 47 Berard, Victor: Les Pheniciens et

l'Odyssee, 230 Berry, Mary, 3 Betjeman, John, 40 Bible, Holy, xv, 12, 31, 69, 133,

150, 152, 163-4, 172n34 Bettelheim, Bruno, 72nn84, 90 Blackwood's Magazine, 237n7 Blair, Robert, 2 Blake, William, 263, 268 Blixen, Karen (Isaac Dinesen), 57 Bluebeard, 152, 187 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 12, 218 Bohm, David, 53 Bond, John (Yeats figure), 267 Boots the chemists, 42 Borges, Jorge Luis, xxivnn17, 18,

56, 61, 156-8, 248 Boswell, James, 2 'Bottle Conjurer' hoax (1749), 153 Brancusi, Constantin, 255 Brangwyn, Frank, 46 Brawne, Fanny, 20 Brecht, Bertolt, 43 Bregion, Joseph and Anne Miller,

183 Bridge, Yseult, 162 Brighton: Royal Pavilion, 18 British Critic (journal), 13 Bronte sisters, 147 Bronte, Bramwell, 28 Bronte, Charlotte, 26-8, 32 Bronte, Emily, 25-7, 50; Wuthering

Heights, 150 Brookfield, Jane Octavia (Mrs

William Henry), 28 Brown, Ford Madox, 33 Browning, Robert, 36; 'Karshish',

249 Buchan, John, 45 Buddha and Buddhism, 38,

175n49; see also ]atakas

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Bull, Rene, 44 Bunyan, John: Pilgrim's Progress,

118 Burke, Edmund, 10, 66n32 Burnet, Thomas: 'Adventures of

Christian the Mutineer', 117; Archaeologiae Philosophicae, 119-20

Burnside, Helen Marion, 41 Burton, Sir Richard: praises Lane's

notes, 103; travels and researches, 104--7; Collins and, 153, 158; Letters from the Battle­Fields of Paraguay, 238n22; Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to al-Madiruzh and Meccah, 105--6; A Plain and Literal translation of the Arabian Nights: ornamental device, xiii-xvii; Henley on, 36-7; as version of Nights, 38-40, 104, 106-8, 156, 197, 246; Foreword, 43, 107; Terminal Essay, 43, 105, 108; editions, 43; published, 107, 222; Shaw praises, 44; on Torrens' translation, 203; on roc, 223; Conrad's interst in, 226; on geographical location of Nights, 235

Butor, Michel, 75n105 Byatt, A. S., 61 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron,

19; Don Juan, 20

Calenders (in Nights), ~9, 14, 31, 87, 99, 129, 134, 136, 141n9, 153, 161, 164, 203, 207, 209, 212

Calvino, Italo, xxv Camaralzaman, Prince (character),

35, 42, 47, 208 'Camaralzaman, Prince of the Isles

of the Children of Khaledan, The Story of', 24, 26, 52

cannibalism, 154, 22~9, 250 cante-Jable structure, 47, 256, 276n20 Capper, James: Observations on the

Passage to India through Egypt, 98

Carlyle, J. Dacre: Specimens of Arabian Poetry, 7-8, 126n16

Carlyle, Thomas, 31, 51, 248 carpet, magic, xxiv-xxv, 13, 29,

35, 195, 20~10, 225 Carr, John Dickson, 45 Carroll, Lewis (C. L. Dodgson),

70n76 Carruthers, John (ie John Young

Thomson Greig): Scheherazade, or the Future of the English Novel, 52-4

Carter, Angela, 61 Casanova Society, 46 Casgar, Sultan of (character), 190 Cassell edition (of Nights), 34 Cassim (character), 20, 133, 181 Cattermole, George, 23 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de,

12, 98, 169nl5, 264; Don Quixote, 10

Ceylon see Kandy Chabrol, Gilbert Joseph Gaspard,

comte de: 'Essai sur les moeurs des habitants modernes de l'Egypte', 101

Chatto and Windus (publishers), 46

Chaucer, Geoffrey, xvi, 5, 12, 19, 149

Chavis, Dom Denis and Jacques Cazotte (translators), 6

Chesterton, G. K., 38, 42, 45, 147n49

children and young people: versions of Nights for, 39-40, 81-109; special books for, 83, 85; illustrations for, 87-90; individual Nights tales as fairy stories for, 90; Lamb on reading for, 112-13

Child's Arabian Nights (1903), 88, 90 Chinese boxes (nesting boxes),

68n48, 154-6, 158, 219 Christian, Fletcher, 117 Chu Chin Cow (musical), 44 Churchman's Last Shift (periodical),

2 cinema and films, 45 circus, 154 City of Brass, xiv, 31, 58, 212

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City of Many Columned Iram, 75n106

Coburn, Kathleen, 117, 119 Cogia Hassan Alhabbal (character),

29 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 7, 50;

reads Nights as child, 82-3, 90, 113-14, 124n7, 178; on effect of childhood reading, 113-14; notebook (Gutch memorandum book), 117; on part in Lyrical Ballads, 118; on belief and 'sacred horror', 122; The Ancient Mariner, 18; moral content, 111, 118, 120-1; analogy with Nights, 111-12, 115--18; narrative style, 119; epigraph, 119; Biographia Literaria, 112, 115, 118; 'Dejection: An Ode', 124n6; 'Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream', 18, 118, 163; Miscellaneous Criticism, 126n14; Notebooks, 118-19, 127n27;

. Sibylline Leaves, 119; Table Talk, 111, 116, 118

Collins, Wilkie, 27, 34--5; concealed references in, 50; uses opium, 144, 158; owns 1820 Nights, 145; frame stories, 148-9, 152; revealed as narrator, 158-9; and detective novel, 159; admires Scott, 163; After Dark, 148-9; Armadale, 150, 153-5; Basil, 150, 152; 'The Bride's Chamber', 150; 'Dr Dulcamara MP', 148; The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (with Dickens), 150; The Moonstone: references to Nights in, xviii, 31, 143-4, 150, 156-8, 164-7; structural form and narrative, 155--8, 162, 164-6; popularity, 159; sources, 160, 162-4, 166; on India and Orient, 159-64; and Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, 167; No Name, 150, 154; 'The Ostler', 147; The Queen of Hearts, 148-9; Rambles beyond Railways, 146; The Woman in White, 150-2

Collins, William (Wilkie Collins' father), 145--6

colonialism, 143, 159 Colum, Mary and Padraic, 241n47 Commedia dell'Arte, 44, 239n36 Common Lore, 61 Company of Story Tellers, 80n138 Conant, Martha Pike, 63n16 Conrad, Joseph, 38, 57; allusions

to Nights, 226-9, 237; Almayer's Folly, 222; The Arrow of Gold, 228; 'Autocracy and War', 227; Chance, 219; 'Falk', 228-9; Heart of Darkness, 43, 235; narrative technique, 218-21, 226-8; in Wells' The Sleeper Awakes, 226; 'The Idiots', 238n22; 'The Inn of Two Witches', 228; 'Karain', 222; Lord Jim, 219, 227; The Nigger of the Narcissus, 228; Nostromo, 227; An Outcast of the Islands, 225--6; Romance, 228; Tales of Unrest, 222; Under Western Eyes, 228; 'Youth', 219-20

Continuation of the Arabian Nights, 6-7, 9, 11, 21, 39, 96

'Continuation of the Sleeper Awakened, The', 45

'Cooper, Rev. Mr', see Johnson, Richard

Cornelius, Peter, 60 Coutts, Angela Burdett-, 136 Crabbe, George: 'The Confidant',

11, 149 Crane, Walter; Aladdin's Picture

Book, 39; The Forty Thieves, 91 Crimean War (1854-5), 139 Critical Review, 11 Crystal Palace, London,

170nn20,23 Cunninghame Graham, Robert, see

Graham, Robert Cunninghame

Dallaway, James, 97 Dalziel, Thomas, 89 Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights,

33-4, 39, 89, 170n23 Damascus, 106

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Daniell, William: The Adventure of Hunch-back, 39

Darwin, Charles, 30 Darwin, Erasmus, 118 Davies, Robertson, 78n130 Dawood, N.J.: The Hunchback,

Sindbad and Other Tales, 55 Day-Lewis, C., 45 Day, Thomas: Sandford and Merton,

141n12 De La Mare, Walter, 49 De Quincey, Thomas, 11, 27,

79n138;onKandy, 161, 163;and Collins' Moonstone, 163-4; Confessions of an English Opium Eater, 144, 164; 'The English Mail Coach', 164

Dean and Munday (publishers), 39

Dean, Basil, 44 Defoe, Daniel, 159; Robinson Crusoe:

Coleridge on, 114-15, 117, 122; Dickens and, 135; referred to in Collins' Moonstone, 143; and India, 167nl

'Delilah the Wily', 275n17 Delius, Frederick, 44 Descartes, Rene, 9-10 Description de l'Egypte (French

Institute), 101 Destiny (film), 45 detective stories, 45, 159 Detmold, E. J., 40, 44 Diaghilev, Serge, 44 Dial, The (journal), 247 diamonds, see jewels and precious

stones Dickens, Charles: influence of

Nights on, 22-5, 34, 130-40; and drugs, 27; reads Nights as child, 82-3, 130; effect of childhood reading on, 113; influence on Wilkie Collins, 147-9; public readings, 149; relations with Collins, 161-2; library, 168n7, 173n40; relations with Elizabeth Gaskell, 198; Bleak House, 130; The Boots', 147; A Christmas Carol, 134-5; 'A Christmas Tree'

(essay), 22, 130-1, 133; David Copperfield, 137; 'The Ghost in Master B's Room' (story), 133, 141n11; Great Expectations, 137-8; Hard Times, 132, 135--6, 150; The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (with Collins), 150; Martin Chuzzlewit, 133-4, 138-9; 'Mr Barlow', 135; Misnar, the Sultan of India, 141n8, 142n18; Our Mutual Friend, 138; 'The Thousand and One Humbugs', 139-40, 191

Dinazad: name, xxiin6; Dickens on, 132

Disraeli, Benjamin, 32, 70n76; Coningsby, 183

Dixon, E., 86-7, 89 Dooban, Sage, 31, 51, 102 Dore, Gustave, 33-4, 40 doubles: in Collins, 150; in

Stevenson, 192 Doughty, Charles M., 108 'Dream of Valid Hassen, The', 10 dreams, 162-3 Dresser, Christopher, 170n20 drugs (addictive), 27-8, 144 Dublin Review, 21 Duddon, John (Yeats figure), 267-

8 Dulac, Edmund: illustrations, 40-

2, 46, 88, 92; influenced by Ballets Russes, 44; and Michael Moorcock, 60; Giraldus portrait and Yeats, 256, 267

Dulcken, H. W., 89 Duleep Singh, Maharajah, 173n42 Dumas, Alexandre, the younger:

Vicomte de Bragelonne, 189 dynamic metabolism, xiv

Eastern Question 161 Ebon Ebon Thalud, 128n29 Eco, Umberto, xxv Eden, Emily, 160, 167nl Ede, Jim and Helen, 52 Edgeworth, Maria: Belinda, 67n48;

'The India Cabinet', 81-2 Egypt, 98, 100-3

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Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly: Diorama of Holy Land, 170n23

Ehrenzweig, Anton, 53 'Eldest Lady's Tale, The', 164, 166 Eliot, George, 201, 205 Eliot, T. S., 38, 42-3, 50, 54; The

Cocktail Party, 5~; The Waste Land, 282

Elisseef, Nikita: Themes et motifs des Mille et une Nuits, 147

Elliotson, Dr John, 162-3 EHmann, Richard, 273 El-Mukledar, 252 empire, see imperialism Empson, William, 52 'Enchanted Horse, The Story of

the', 19 'Enchanted Spring, The', 75n108 'Enthralled Youth, The Tale of

the', see 'Young King of the Black Islands, The'

Entertainments (selection by Andrew Lang), 86

envelope structures, 169n19 epanalepsis, 151 Eyre, Edward John, Governor of

Jamaica, 173n42

Fairbanks, Douglas, 45 fairy tales: Nights stories presented

as, 90 Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights

(ed. E. Dixon), 86 'False Khaleffah, The', 172n28 fancy, 115, 119 Farah, Nuruddin, 61 feminism, 41-2, 60, 72n90, 151; see

also anti-feminism Fergusson, James, 174n45, 175n49 fictionality: in Meredith, 206 Fielding, Henry, 16; joseph

Andrews, 3 Fielding, K. J., 130 'Fifth Wezeer's Tale, The', 32 films, see cinema Fisher King, 282 'Fisherman and the Genie, The

Story of the', 21, 25, 28, 46, 56,

69n63, 72n84, 138, 142, 155, 193, 224, 227, 281

Flanner, Hildegarde, 59 Flecker, James Elroy: Hassan, 44 Fletcher, Ian, 204, 208 Fokine, Mikhail Mikhailovich, 44 Folkard, Charles, 88 Ford, Ford Madox (Hueffer), 47 Ford, Henry (illustrator), 89, 92 Ford, Richard, 54 Foreign Quarterly Review, 30 Forster, E. M., 48, 54 Forster, Edward: version of Nights,

8, 21, 39, 82, 153, 181; on Dallaway, 97

Forster, John, 22-3 Forty Thieves, 13, 22, 24, 31 Forty Thieves, The (pantomime), 44,

91 Fox, Charles James, 2 frame story: in Nights, 1, 54, 219;

in children's versions, 84--6; in Collins, 148--9, 152; Stevenson and Thackeray use, 189; in Conrad, 219-21, 228-9; in Wells, 220; in Joyce, 233-4; in Yeats, 247, 251-2, 255; see also ransom frame; Scheherazade

Frazer, Sir James G.: The Golden Bough, 282

free will and fate, 153 French Revolution, 10 Freud, Sigmund, 38, 47, 71n84, 155

Gall and Inglis (publishers), 39 Galland, Antoine: French

translation of Nights, xv, xvi, 2, 6, 15, 96--7; English version, 2, 6, 21, 34, 36--8, 46, 87, 95, 102-4, 125n11, 145, 203; as children's reading, 40, 82-3, 87; and frame story, 85; excerpted tales, 90-1; Dickens praises, 139; Thackeray reads, 78; Stevenson refers to, 193

Gaskell, Elizabeth, 197-9; Cranford, 199-200; Mary Barton, 197-8; North and South, 197-9; Wives and Daughters, 198

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General Magazine, 3 GentlemJln's Magazine, 6, 96 Gerhardt, Mia 1., 52, 115, 194,

218--19 Germany: Nights in, 44 ghouls, 26-7, 32, 132, 228--9 Gibbon, Edward, 2 Gildon, Charles: Golden Spy, 2 Gillman, James, 128n29 Giraldus: Dulac portrait of, 256,

267, 268, 270 Gittes, Katharine Slater, 256 Godwin, Mary Jane, 91 Goethe, J. W. von, 66n42, 71n84,

265 Gollancz (publishers), 46 gourds, 65n30 Grabar, Oleg: The Alhambra, 58 Graham, Robert Cunninghame,

226 Grail, Holy, 282-3 Grant, Allan, 7 Graves, Robert, 56; The White

Goddess, 282 Greek myth, 125n13, 126n14 Green, Roger Lancelyn, 51 Greene, Graham, 49, 54-6 Gregory, Pope, 56 Gregory, Augusta, Lady, 270 Grimm Brothers, 22, 89 Grisewood, Harman, 52 Guardian (newspaper), 57 Gurdjieff, George (Yuri), 56

'Habib and Dorathil-goase, or The Arabian Knight', 9

Habicht, Maximilian, 21 Hajji Baba, see Morier, James

Justinian Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph,

Freiherr von, 15, 21, 148 Harar (Somaliland), 106 Harris, Augustus, 44 Harris, John, 91 Hart, Clive, 234 Harun al-Rashid, Caliph: historical

figure, 43, 105, 126n16; name, 14lnll; Dickens and Collins as, 147; Stevenson as, 191;

Meredith's view of, 213; and Wells' stories, 224-5; parallel with Proteus, 230; Joyce and, 230-1, 236; Yeats' allusions to, 246-9, 252-3, 257-9, 268

Harvey, William, 33-4, 46, 89 Hasan of Basra (character), 59 'Hasan of El-Basra', 32, 151 Hauff, W.: 'The Caliph Turned

Stork', 191 Hawker, R. S., 31 Hawkesworth, John, 2 Hayes, Michael, 79n137 Hazlitt, William, 67n46 'Heart's Miracle, Lieutenant of the

Birds', 259-60, 276n17 Heath-Stubbs, John, 42-3 Henley, W. H., xiv, xv, 36-7, 223 Heron, Robert: The Arabian Tales

(translation of Continuation of the Arabian Nights), 6, 9-10

Hindbad (character), 91, 192, 214 History of Sinbad the Sailor, 90-1 Hitopadesa, 58 Hodder and Stoughton

(publishers), 42, 46 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 71n84 Hofstadter, Douglas R., 53, 61 Hole, Richard: Arthur, or, The

Northern Enchantment, 7; Remarks on the Arabian Nights Entertainments, 3-5, 7, 10, 17-18, 57, 82, 122nl

Holman Hunt, William, 33, 170n23 Holmes, Sherlock (fictitious

figure), 37 Homer, 2, 12, 218, 220 Hood, W. K. and Connie K., 270-

1 Hope, Thomas: Anastasius, 98 horse, enchanted, 5, 34, 46, 132,

135, 169n15; see also 'Enchanted Horse, The Story of the'

Hough, Graham, 258, 273 Houghton, Arthur Boyd, 33-4, 89,

170n23 Household Words (journal), 130, 136,

139, 198 Housman, Laurence, 41-2, 46, 60

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Howitt, William: Visits to Remarkable Places, 32

Hunchback, Little (character), 20, 25

'Hunchback, Tale of the', 45, 91, 182, 197, 234--5, 237n8

Hunt, Leigh, 32 Hutchinson, Sarah, 124n6 Huxley, T. H., 31, 37 Hyder, Clyde K., 152

illusion: Meredith and, 202, 205 illustrations: Victorian, 33--4, 39-

40, 170n23; twentieth-century, 46; for children, 87-90; see also individual illustrators

imagination: Coleridge on, 112, 115, 118

imperialism and empire, 159, 165; see also colonialism; India

India: British in, 98, 159-60, 162, 165, 167nl

Industrial Revolution, 32-3 inserted stories, 219 'instrumental marvellous', 51, 221 Irving, Washington: The Tales of

the Alhambra, 23, 58, 145-6; Works, 145

Irwin, Robert, 61 Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, 107

Jacobs, Joseph, xv, 38, 89 Jamaica: negro revolt (1865),

173n42 James, Henry, 34--6, 50; Stevenson

and, 192; The Aspern Papers: preface, 208; The Madonna of the Future, 226

Jamil (character), 218 fatakas (Buddhist writings), 38, 43,

58 Jefferies, Richard, xxv jewels and precious stones, 159-

60 Johnson, Lionel, 265 Johnson, Richard ('Rev. Mr

Cooper'): compiles The Oriental Moralist, 84--6

Johnson, Samuel, 12, 82; Rasselas, 4

Jones, David, 52, 56 Jones, Owen, 39, 54, 152 Joyce, James, 38, 42, 237; and

intertextuality, 229; knowledge of Nights, 230; and pantomime, 230-1, 233, 236; 'The Dead', 235; Dubliners, 233; Finnegan's Wake, 43; narrative technique, 219; pantomime in, 230-1; structure, 233-5; allusions to Nights in, 233-6; Ulysses, 47; narrative technique, 219; sources, 229-30; references to Nights in, 231-3, 235-6

Judwali religion, 253

Kafka, Franz, 50 Kalila and Dimna (Persian story),

58 Kamer al-Zaman (character), 105 Kandy (Ceylon), 161, 163 Karl, F. R. and L. Davies, 226 Keats, John: eastern influence on,

19-20, 45; Endymion, 19; The Eve of St Agnes', 19; 'Nightingale Ode', 201

Keightley, Thomas, 149, 152; The Fairy Mythology, 76n114, 146

Kenner, Hugh, 229 Kent, Constance, 162 key-patterns, xv King, C. W.: The Natural History of

Precious Stones, 160 'King Wird Khan, his Women and

his Wazirs', 245-6 'King's Son and the Afrit's

Mistress, The', 156 Kinglake, A. W.: Eothen, 103--4 Kipling, Rudyard, 31, 36, 38, 46;

The Man Who Would Be King, 226

Knipp, C. C.: 'Types of Orientalism', 3

Koh-i-noor (diamond), 159-60 Korkowski, Eugene, 255 Korzeniowski, Apollo, 238n21; see

also Conrad, Joseph

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Kufic script, xiv-xv Kusta ben Luka, 247, 249, 251-3,

268, 270

Lady of the Glass Case, The, 22, 131, 133

Lady's Magazine, 3 Lahy-Hollebecque, Marie, 72n90 Lamb, Charles, 112, 115, 118--19 Lamb, George, 15 Lane, E. W.: translation of Nights,

xvi, 21-2, 24, 27, 32, 34, 36, 39, 100-3, 105, 116, 156, 197, 212; editions of translation, 46; illustrated, 88--9; Arabian Society in the Middle Ages, 103; on Persian names, 141n11; Chaucer and, 149; Modern Egyptians, 100-3

Lang, Andrew, 11, 86--7, 89, 92; Colour Fairy Books, 90

Lang, Fritz, 45 Larkin, David, 59 Lavis, Stephen, 92 Lawrence, D. H., 74n98 Lawrence, T. E.: Seven Pillars of

Wisdom, 108--9 Layard, Sir Austen Henry, 153 Le Cain, Errol, 92 Le Fanu, Sheridan, 27-30 LeSage, Alain Rene, 98 Leni, Paul, 45 Lessing, Doris, 55--9 Lewis, C. S., 51-2 Lewis, John Frederick: Sketches and

Drawings of the Alhambra, 145 Lewis, Wyndham, 42, 47, 56, 255;

The Childermass, 43 L'Isle Adam, Denise de, 264, 267-

8, 270 'Little Hunchback, The', see

'Hunchback, Tale of the' Loathly Maiden, The, 282 Lockhart, J. G.: Ancient Spanish

Ballads, 39 London News (news-sheet), 2 'Lovers from the Tribe of Udhra,

The', 218 Lowes, John Livingstone: The Road

to Xanadu, 117

Lubbock, Sir John, 34 Lubitsch, Ernst, 45 Ludlow, Fitzhugh: Hasheesh Eater,

xxi, 27 Lytton, Edward G. Earle Lytton

Bulwer-, 1st Baron: The Lady of Lyons, 186

'Ma'aruf the Cobbler and his Wife Fatimah', 236

Macauley, Thomas Babington, Baron, 31

McCaughrean, Geraldine: One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, 92

Macdiarmid, Hugh, 56 Machaghten, William Hay, 21;

translation of Nights, 160 Madina (Medina), 104--5 Magic Horse, The (extract), 46 magnitude (and smallness) of

Nights figures, 114, 198 Mahmud, Sultan (character), 52 Makka (Mecca), 104--5 Manicheanism, 56 'Man who Never Laughed Again,

The', 32 Mardrus, J. C.: translation of

Nights, 40, 44, 46, 48--9; Yeats and, 247-9, 255, 259-60, 262; see also Mathers, Edward Powys

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, 78n130 marriage customs, 106 Martineau, Harriet, 106 Maskelyne, Mervin Herbert Nevil

Story, 160 'Master of the White Mare, The', 250 Mathers, Edward Powys:

translation of Nights, 46-9, 246, 265; see also Mardrus, J.C.

Maximilian, Emperor, 173n42 Max Muller, Friedrich, 30, 175n49 maya, 241n48 Mayo, R. 0., 3 Mecca, see Makka Medina, see Madina melons, 65n30 Melville, Herman: Moby Dick,

171n26

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'Merchant and the Jinni, The', 25-7, 111, 115-17, 120-1, 126n14, 131

Mercury (Greek god), 57 Meredith, George, 31, 57; narrative

methods, 19S---215; influenced by Nights, 201; fictionality, 206; The Amazing Marriage, 215; Beauchamp's Career, 213-15; Diana of the Crossways, 215; The Egoist, 201; Essay on Comedy, 204---5; Evan Barrington, 212-15; Harry Richmond, 20S---12; Modern Love, 201, 215; The Shaving of Shagpat, 130, 197, 201-8, 215; stories in, 205-6, 216n17; 'Shemselnihar', 201; 'The Sleeping City', 201

Mesrour (character), 28 metamorphosis, 192, 207-8 Mill, John Stuart, 31 Millais, Sir John Everett, 170n23 Milley, H. J. W., 167 Milnes, Richard Monckton, 1st

Baron Houghton, 153, 161-2, 174n45

mirrors, distorting, 213-14 mise en abime, 15, 154-6 Miss Braddon's Revised Edition of

Aladdin ... and Sindbad, 40 Modernism, 43, 48, 54 Mohammad Ibn Kala-oon, 284nl Montagu, Edward Wortley, 96, 108 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 4,

95-6 moon: Coleridge and, 117-18 Moorcock, Michael, 60-1 Moore, George, 74n98 Moore, Thomas: Lalla Rookh, 39 More Fairy Tales from the Arabian

Nights (ed. E. Dixon), 86 More, Hannah, 82 Morgiana (slave character), 24,

136, 186-7 Morier, James Justinian, 98;

Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, 9S---100, 197; The Mirza, 99-100

Morris, William, 31-2, 265 Muir, Edwin, 53, 193

Muller, Friedrich Max, see Max Muller, Friedrich

Murray, John, 21 Musurus, Madam: murdered, 161

National Obseroer, 223 National Review, 225-6 Nesbit, Edith, 45 New Arabian Nights (1792), 95 Newbery, Mrs Elizabeth, 84, 90;

Catalogue of Publications for Young Minds, 39

Newman, John Henry, 31 Newnes, George (publisher), 40,

90 Nielsen, Kay, 44, 59, 92 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 38 Nijinsky, Vaslav Fomich, 44 Nister-Dutton edition of Nights, 41 Norton, G. F., 44 'Noureddin Ali and Bedreddin

Hassan', 32, 187 'Noureddin and the Fair Persian',

32, 45, 191 Nouronnihar, Princess (character),

35 Novelist Magazine, 2

O'Brien, C., 161 O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger, 150 O'Leary, Daniel, 266-7 Oliphant, Laurence, 173n42 Ong, W. J.: Orality and Literacy,

xviii opium, 27-8, 30, 144 Oriental Collections (1797), 6, 96 Oriental Moralist, The (by 'The

Rev'd Mr Cooper'), 39, 83-4, 88 'oriental tales', 95 Oriental Tales: Being Moral Selections

from The Arabian Nights, 86, 88 Orr, Monroe, 88 Ouseley, Sir William, see Oriental

Collections Oxford University Press, 88, 92

Palmer, Cecil, 46 Palmerston, Henry John Temple,

3rd Viscount, 13~0

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Panchatantra, 58, 149, 255 pantomime, 1, 44, 154; Joyce and,

230-1, 233, 236; see also individual pantomimes

Pape, Frank C., 88 Parizade (character), 23, 25, 47 Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 79n37 pavilions, 18 Payne, John: version of Nights,

xvi, 36-7, 79, 107, 156; and Burton, 107

Peel, Sir Robert, 173n42 Perec, Georges, xxv Peri Banou, see Ahmed, Prince Perrault, Charles, 22 Persia: European travellers in, 98 Persian Tales (1710), 95, 178 Petis de Ia Croix, Fran<;ois: Turkish

Tales, 197 petrified city, 29, 31, 34, 52 Philips, Ambrose, 178 picaresque, 150, 169n15, 197 Pigott, Edward, 176n49 Poe, Edgar Allan: 'The Thousand­

and-Second Tale of Scheherazade', 222

Polichinello (Punch), xvi Poole, Edward Stanley, 22 Poole, P. F.: Moors Beleaguered in

Valencia (painting), 184 Poole, Thomas, 82, 113 Pope, Alexander, 2, 82 'Popular Stories for the Nursery'

(series), 91 'Porter and the Ladies of Baghdad,

The', 9, 19, 35, 69n64, 71n84, 156, 160, 164-6

'Porter and the Three Young Girls, The Tale of the', 275n14

Pound, Ezra, 43, 262 Powell, Anthony, 78n128 'prehension', 53 Pre-Raphaelitism, 33, 90, 170n23 Prigogine, Ilya, 53 'Prince Jasmine and Princess

Almond', 249 'Prince Zeyn Alasnam, and the

King of the Genii, The history of', 123n6

Pringle, Sir John, 2 Proctor, Anne B., 161 Proust, Marcel, 46, 57 Pseudo-Caliph, 52; see also 'False

Khalifah, The' Punch, see Polichinello puns, 153

Quarterly Review, 99 quest, 281-3

Rackham, Arthur, 40 Raine, Kathleen, 76n110 ransom-frame, 115; see also frame

story Ravel, Maurice, 74n100 Read, Herbert, 49-50, 54 Reeve, Clara, 63n14 Reinhardt, Max, 44 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 2 Richards, Ceri, 46 Ridley, James: Tales of the Genii,

83, 85, 137, 141n8, 142n18 Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Andreevich, 44 Riordan, James, 92 Road Hill House case, 162, 166 Robartes, Michael (Yeats figure),

244-5, 250-1, 253-7, 260, 264, 266-72

Robinson, W. Heath, 40-1, 88, 90 Robison, Arthur, 45 Rossetti, Christina, 31 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 33 Rossetti, William Michael, 170n23 Rouse, W. H. D., 41 Routledge and Kegan Paul

(publishers), 46 Runjeet Singh, 160 Rushdie, Salman, 61 Ruskin, John 31 Russ, Joanna, 78n130 Russell, Alexander, 96 Russell, Patrick: Natural History of

Aleppo, 4, 6, 96-7, 101-2 Russell, William Howard, 162 Russian dolls, 154, 158

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Sacks, Oliver, xxv Sackville-West, Vita, 48 Saintsbury, George, 265 Scheherazade (Shahrazad): name,

xxiin6; omitted from modem selections, 1; Dickens and, 25, 140n2, 150; interpretations of, 41-2; historical figure, 43; Virginia Woolf identifies with, 48; and encyclopedic learning, 52-3; feminism, 72n70; in children's versions of Nights, 84-6, 92; and ransom-frame, 115, 117; story-telling, 148; Thackeray, Stevenson and, 187, 189, 194; and serial writing, 198; and women, 204-5; Meredith and, 198--215; and narrative technique, 219; and Yeats, 244-5, 247, 249, 265; see also frame story

Scheherazade (ballet), 44 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 38 Schwab, Raymond, xvii science fiction, 43, 51 Science Schools journal, 223 Scott, Jonathan: version of Nights,

5--6, 21, 37, 96 Scott, Walter: letter from

Wordsworth, 7; visits Wordsworth, 11; influence of Nights on, 11-19, 21-2, 27, 57; and Dickens, 23-4; on James Watt, 32; influence on Collins, 147; and British colonialism, 159; The Antiquary, 149, 163; The Bride of Lammermoor, 163; The Surgeon's Daughter, 159

Scott, William Bell, 33 'Second Voyage of Sindbad the

Seaman, The', 223 serial publication, 158, 198 Seven Wise Masters (tales), 5, 255 sexism, 152; see also feminism Sezincote: architecture, 18 Shacabac (character), 15, 22, 182-

3, 185 Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley

Cooper, 3rd Earl of: Advice to an Author, 3

Shah, Idries, 56, 58--9 Shahriar, Sultan (character), 41,

84-5, 92, 117, 148, 219, 249, 252 Shakespear, Olivia, 264 Shakespeare, William, 12, 19, 264-

5; King Lear, 56 Shared Experience (theatre group),

79n137 Shaw, George Bernard, 44 Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein, 68n48 Sheridan, Mrs Frances: Nourjahad,

83 Shklovsky, Viktor, 299 Sidi Numan (character), 20, 27, 29,

33, 45, 132, 184, 199, 229, 250 Sillitoe, Alan, 61 Sindbad (character), 20; in

pantomime, 1, 54, 230, 233, 236; and Odyssey, 17; Byron on, 20; and children, 22; voyages, 30; and Hindbad, 192, 214; influence on 20th-century writers, 47; and Crusoe, 49; individual stories excerpted, 90--1; Dickens on, 135, 137, 142; Thackeray refers to, 179; Wells and, 222; Conrad and, 227; and Joyce's Ulysses, 230, 232; and Joyce's Finnegans Wake, 236; and Yeats, 245

Sindbad (1914), 42 Sindbad ... and Ali Baba, 40 'Sisters who Envied their Younger

Sister, The Story of the', 23, 284 size, see magnitude slave of the lamp, the: parallels,

29-30 'Sleeper Awakened, The', 13, 45,

59, 166, 224, 234 Smedley, Edward: Occult Sciences,

146, 166 Smirke, Robert, 21, 40 Smith, Revd Leapidge, 125n7 Smith, Logan Pearsall, 75n109 Smith, 0. ('Richard Smith'), 193 Smollett, Tobias, 169n15; Humphry

Clinker, 3 Snow, C. P., 53 Society for the Diffusion of Useful

Knowledge, 100

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Somaliland, 106 Souief, Ahdaf, 61 Southey, Robert: Thalaba, 7, 9, 197 Spectator (journal), 2, 23, 172n34,

197 Speir, Charlotte, 172n34, 175n49 Spenser, Edmund, 12, 19; The

Fairie Queene, 17 Stallworthy, Jon, 248 Stanley Poole, E., see Poole,

Edward Stanley Stephens, F. G., 33 Sterne, Laurence, 2 Stevenson, R. A. M. (Bob), 180 Stevenson, Robert Louis: on Scott,

16; and narration of Nights, 27; affinity with 18th century, 178; nostalgia for childhood, 180-1; acquaintance with Nights, 180-1, 188--95; and doubles, 192; 'An Autumn Effect' (essay), 190; 'The Bottle Imp', 193--4; 'Child's Play' (essay), 181, 188; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 189; The Ebb Tide, 195; Island Nights' Entertainment, 193; The Master of Ballantrae, 31, 174n47, 189, 192-3; The New Arabian Nights, 189-92, 265; 'A Penny Plain and Tuppence Coloured', 181; Prince Otto, 191; 'The Rajah's Diamond', 189-90; 'The Suicide Club', 189; The Wrecker, 189

Stoker, Bram, 45 Stone, Henry, 130, 150--1 Stories from the Arabian Nights

(1907), 41, 88 Strang, William, 40 Stratton, Helen, 41, 90 Sturm, Frank Pearce, 269 Sufism, 56, 104 Sugden, Hon. Mrs, 87-8 Sulman, T., 39 'Sultan ai-Yaman and his Three

Sisters, The', 37 Sumurun (theatrical fantasia), 44;

film, 45 supernatural beings: Coleridge

and, 118-21, 126n14

Swift, Jonathan, 2, 159 'Sympathy the Learned' ('The

Slave-Girl Tawadudd'), 275n17

Tabart, Benjamin (publisher), 91 'Taj ei-Mulook and the Lady

Dunya', 148 Tales of the Genii, see Ridley, James tales within tales, xvii, 24, 148,

153, 218-19, 233, 235 Tanner, Tony, 229 Tegg, Thomas (publisher), 86, 88 'Ten Waziers, The' 255 Tennent, Sir James Emerson,

161 Tenniel, Sir John, 33, 39, 70n76 Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron, 30,

32-3, 81, 105, 180; Maud, 43; 'Recollections of the Arabian Nights', 170n23, 201

Thackeray, William Makepeace: on romance story-telling, 21; passion for Mrs Brookfield, 28; liking for Nights, 81, 83, 178, 180, 182, 195; influence on Collins, 149; and Barmecide banquet, 182-4; Denis Duval, 178; The Fitzboodle Papers, 185; Henry Esmond, 178, 185, 189; 'Memorials of Gourmandising', 183; The Newcomes, 180, 187; Pendennis, 185--6; Philip, 184; Sultan Stork, 191; Vanity Fair, 178-9, 182, 186-7; The Virginians, 178, 189

theatre: influence of Nights on, 43-5

Theatrum Mundi: Yeats and metaphor of, 258, 261

Thief of Baghdad (1923--4 film), 45 Thompson, E. P., 33 Thomson, James ('BV'), 31; The

City of Dreadful Night, 43 'Three Apples, The', 131, 156, 162,

166 'Three Calenders, History of the',

19, 190, 193; see also Calenders Timbs, J., 160 Tipu Sahib, 144-5, 159, 173n42

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Todorov, Tzvetan, 13, 67n47; on Nights as 'narrative machine', 79n138, 237; on Collins' The Moonstone, 156; on the 'instrumental marvellous', 221; The Fantastic, 13

Toomey, Deirdre, 7 Torrens, Henry, 21-2, 160, 202-4 Townsend, Rev. George Fyler, 88 transformation, see metamorphosis translations (of Nights): and

oriental tales, 95; see also Burton, Sir Richard; Forster, Edward; Galland, Antoine; Habicht, Maximilian; Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von; Lamb, George; Lane, Edward; Mardrus, J. C.; Mathers, Edward Powys; Payne, John; Scott, Jonathan; Torrens, Henry

Trimmer, Sarah, 83, 85, 112 Trollope, Anthony, 31; The Eustace

Diamonds, 167 Trumbull, Sir William, 82 Twain, Mark, 78n130 'Two Lives of Sultan Mahmoud,

The', 52, 234, 278n37

unconscious, the (mind), 47, 155 uroboric form, 155

Valery, Paul, xxiiin11 Valley of Diamonds, The; or Harlequin

Sindbad, 39 Vergil, 2 Vemet, Horace, 168n4 Vico, Giambattista, 242n50 Victoria, Queen, 70n76 'vocational convention', 223 Voltaire, Fran<;ois Arouet de, 37 Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, The, 91

Waite, A. E., xxv Walpole, Horace, 3, 37 Wandering Jew, 117 Warburton, Eliot, 103; The Crescent

and the Cross, 104 Warne's (publishers), 88 Warning Shadows (ftlm), 45

Warton, Joseph, 2 Warton, Thomas, 5 Watt, James, 32 Watts, Cedric, 218 Waxworks (ftlm), 45 Weber, Henry, 1; Tales of the East,

4-7, 197; influence on Scott, 12-13, 17-18; and Moslem architecture, 18; influence on Keats, 20; influence on Tennyson, 32;andpublication of Nights, 21; and nature of Nights, 57

Wells, H. G., 38, 43; influence of Nights on, 222-5, 228-9, 237; reviews Conrad, 226; 'Aepyomis Island', 222; 'The Chronic Argonauts' (see The Time Machine); Experiment in Autobiography, 225; The Happy Turning, 225; The History of Mr Polly, 223-4; 'The Lord of the Dynamos', 222; The Research Magnificent, 224; The Sleeper Awakes, 224-6; The Time Machine (formerly 'The Chronic Argonauts'), 220--1, 223, 235

West, Rebecca, 47, 56 Weston, Jessie M.: From Ritual to

Romance, 282-3 Wheeler, J. Talboys: Madras of the

Olden Times, 159 Whitehead, Alfred North, 53 Wilde, Oscar, 279 Wildsmith, Brian, 88 Wilkie, Sir David, 23, 146-7, 159;

General Baird discovering the Body of Tipu Sultan (painting), 144

wine, 101 Wood, Ramsay, 58 Woolf, Leonard, 38 Woolf, Virginia, 38, 48-50, 54;

Orlando, 47 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 8 Wordsworth, John, 7 Wordsworth, William: collection of

versions of Nights, 7, 39; Scott visits, 11; reads Nights as child, 83; effect of childhood reading

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Wordsworth, William- continued on, 113; letter from Lamb on Ancient Mariner, 119; Lyrical Ballads, 118; Preface, 8; The Prelude, 8--11, 18, 171n26

Yeats, W. B.; on Dulac, 42; influenced by Nights, 42, 244-8; and Balzac, 169n12; and time­gaining, 244, 250-1; marriage, 250, 263; and Giraldus portrait (Dulac), 256, 267; on great books and authors, 265; 'The Adoration of the Magi' (story), 245; 'All Souls Night', 269, 271-2; 'Certain Noble Plays of Japan', 42; 'The Dance of the Four Royal Persons', 251-5, 257, 259-60, 268, 270; Discoveries, 259, 263; The End of the Cycle', 271, 273; The Gift of Harun al­Rashid' ('Desert Geometry'), 249, 253, 258, 260, 264, 270, 272; 'The Great Wheel', 257; 'Michael Robartes Foretells', 270-1; A Packet for Ezra Pound, 262-4; Per Arnica Silentia Lunae, 245; 'The Phases of the Moon', 272; 'Robartes set' (series), 244-5, 250, 253, 255--6, 273; 'Rosa

Alchemica' (story), 245, 253; The Speckled Bird, 245; Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends, 262, 264--8, 270-1; 'The Tables of the Law' (story), 245; 'Three Songs to the One Burden', 169n14; A Vision, 49; version A: published, 245; connection with Nights, 246-52; grand design, 252-3, 255-7, 259--61, 268--9, 273; Yeats disavows, 262; relation with B version, 268--9; version B: connection with Nights, 246, 249, 262-3; publication, 251; alterations, 258, 262-3, 268--9; design, 263-73; 'The Wanderings of Oisin', 248; The Wild Swans at Coole, 269; The Wind Among the Reeds, 245

'Young King of the Black Islands, The' ('The Tale of the Ensorcelled Youth'), 11, 45, 49, 57, 132, 216n18, 281-3

Zangwill, Israel, 221 Zeyn, Prince (character), 123n6 Zobeide (character), 29, 31, 45, 87,

164-5, 201 'Zumurrud and Ali Shar', 275n17