The Book of the Thousand Nights and a

Vol. V

Anonymous

• Publisher: Start Classics
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781627937924
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Travel

This fifth of nine volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.

Table of contents

• Cover
• THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND A NIGHT
• Copyright
• Contents of the Fifth Volume
• THE EBONY HORSE.[1]
• UNS AL-WUJUD AND THE WAZIR'S DAUGHTER AL- WARD FI'L-AKMAM OR ROSE-IN-HOOD.[30]
• ABU NOWAS WITH THE THREE BOYS AND THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID[82]
• ABDALLAH BIN MA'AMAR WITH THE MAN OF BASSORAH AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
• THE LOVERS OF THE BANU[99] OZRAH
• WAZIR OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS YOUNG BROTHER
• THE LOVES OF THE BOY AND GIRL AT SCHOOL
• AL-MUTALAMMIS AND HIS WIFE UMAYMAH
• THE CALIPH HARUM AL-RASHID AND QUEEN ZUBAYDAH IN THE BATH
• HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE THREE POETS
• MUS'AB BIN AL-ZUBAYR AND AYISHAH HIS WIFE
• ABU AL-ASWAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL
• HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE TWO SLAVE-GIRLS
• THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE THREE SLAVE-GIRLS
• THE MILLER AND HIS WIFE
• THE SIMPLETON AND THE SHARPER
• THE KAZI ABU YUSUF WITH HARUN AL-RASHID AND QUEEN ZUBAYDAH
• THE CALIPH AL-HAKIM[123] AND THE MERCHANT
• KING KISRA ANUSHIRWAN[124] AND THE VILLAGE DAMSEL
• WATER-CARRIER[126] AND THE GOLDSMITH'S WIFE
• KHUSRAU AND SHIRIN AND THE FISHERMAN
• YAHYA BIN KHALID THE BARMECIDE AND THE POOR MAN
• MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL
• THE SONS OF YAHYA BIN KHALID AND SA'ID BIN SALIM AL-BAHILI
• THE WOMAN'S TRICK AGAINST HER HUSBAND
• THE DEVOUT WOMAN AND THE TWO WICKED ELDERS[138]
• JA'AFAR THE BARMECIDE AND THE OLD BADAWL
• THE CALIPH OMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB AND THE YOUNG BADAWI
• THE CALIPH AL-MAAMUN AND THE PYRAMIDS[153] OF EGYPT
• THE THIEF AND THE MERCHANT
• MASRUR THE EUNUCH AND IBN AL-KARIBI
• THE DEVOTEE PRINCE
• THE UNWISE SCHOOLMASTER WHO FELL IN LOVE BY REPORT
• THE FOOLISH DOMINIE[170]
• ILLITERATE WHO SET UP FOR A SCHOOLMASTER
• THE KING AND THE VIRTUOUS WIFE.
• ABD AL-RAHMAN THE MAGHRIBI'S STORY OF THE RUKH.[176]
• ADI BIN ZAYD AND THE PRINCESS HIND.
• DI'IBIL AL-KHUZA'I WITH THE LADY AND MUSLIM BIN AL-WALID.
• ISAAC OF MOSUL AND THE MERCHANT.
• THE THREE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS.
• HOW ABU HASAN BRAKE WIND.
• THE LOVERS OF THE BANU TAYY.
• THE MAD LOVER.
• THE PRIOR WHO BECAME A MOSLEM.
• THE LOVES OF ABU ISA AND KURRAT AL-AYN.
• AL-AMIN SON OF AL-RASHID AND HIS UNCLE IBRAHIM BIN AL-MAHDI.
• AL-FATH BIN KHAKAN AND THE CALIPH AL-MUTAWAKKIL.
• THE MAN'S DISPUTE WITH THE LEARNED WOMAN CONCERNING THE RELATIVE EXCELLENCE OF MALE AND FEMALE.
• ABU SUWAYD AND THE PRETTY OLD WOMAN.
• THE EMIR ALI BIN TAHIR AND THE GIRL MUUNIS.
• THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BOY AND THE OTHER WHO HAD A MAN TO LOVER.
• ALI THE CAIRENE AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN BAGHDAD.
• THE PILGRIM MAN AND THE OLD WOMAN.
• ABU AL-HUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWADDUD.[281]
• THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD KING AND THE DEVOUT MAN.
• THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE RICH KING.
• THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
• ISKANDAR ZU AL-KARNAYN[460] AND A CERTAIN TRIBE OF POOR FOLK.
• THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF KING ANUSHIRWAN.[463]
• THE JEWISH KAZI AND HIS PIOUS WIFE.
• THE SHIPWRECKED WOMAN AND HER CHILD.
• THE PIOUS BLACK SLAVE.
• THE DEVOUT TRAY-MAKER AND HIS WIFE.
• AL-HAJJAJ AND THE PIOUS MAN.
• THE BLACKSMITH WHO COULD HANDLE FIRE WITHOUT HURT.
• THE DEVOTEE TO WHOM ALLAH GAVE A CLOUD FOR SERVICE AND THE DEVOUT KING.
• THE MOSLEM CHAMPION AND THE CHRISTIAN DAMSEL.
• THE CHRISTIAN KING'S DAUGHTER AND THE MOSLEM.
• THE PROPHET AND THE JUSTICE OF PROVIDENCE.
• THE FERRYMAN OF THE NILE AND THE HERMIT.
• THE ISLAND KING AND THE PIOUS ISRAELITE.
• ABU AL-HASAN AND ABU JA'AFAR THE LEPER.[501]
• THE QUEEN OF THE SERPENTS.[507]
• Arabian Nights, Volume 5 Footnotes