Arabian Nights and Days
Author | Naguib Mahfouz |
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Original title | ليالي ألف ليلة |
Translator | Denys Johnson-Davies |
Country | Egypt |
Language | Arabic |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Doubleday (English) |
Publication date | 1979 (Arabic version) |
Published in English | 1995 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 227 pp (first Eng. edition, hardback) |
ISBN | 978-0-385-46888-6 (first Eng. edition, hardback) |
Arabian Nights and Days (1979) is a 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[]
- ^ 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.
Categories:
- Novels by Naguib Mahfouz
- 1979 novels
- 1995 novels
- Egyptian novels
- Arabic-language novels
- Works based on One Thousand and One Nights
- Doubleday (publisher) books
- Novels based on fairy tales
- Egypt stubs
- African novel stubs