Arabian Nights and Days

Arabian Nights and Days
Early Arabian edition
AuthorNaguib Mahfouz
Original titleليالي ألف ليلة
TranslatorDenys Johnson-Davies
LanguageArabic
GenreNovel
PublisherDoubleday (English)
Publication date
1982 (Arabic version)
Publication placeEgypt
Published in English
1995
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages227 pp (first Eng. edition, hardback)
ISBN978-0-385-46888-6 (first Eng. edition, hardback)

Arabian Nights and Days is a 1982 novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel serves as a sequel and companion piece for One Thousand and One Nights and includes many of the same characters that appeared in the original work such as Shahryar, Scheherazade, and Aladdin.[1]

References

  1. ^ Hallengren, Anders (2004). Nobel laureates in search of identity and integrity voices of different cultures. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-256-711-6. ISBN 978-981-256-038-4.


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