Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
1590
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 2 (of 6)
1590
Translated by Richard Francis, Sir Burton
Long before Sherlock Holmes or film noir, medieval Cairo's streets teemed with a different kind of detective: the constable whose wits were tested as often as his sword. This second volume of the Supplemental Nights shifts the frame from Scheherazade's palace to the bazaars, backstreets, and taverns of Mamluk Cairo, where police officers recount their most confounding cases. The King himself has grown curious about the cunning of women, and the constables obliged with tales of thieves disguised as holy men, wives outwitting husbands, and schemes so elaborate they could only emerge from a city where everyone had something to hide. These are not the magical adventures of Aladdin or Ali Baba, but something rarer: earthy, darkly funny stories of ordinary human cunning, where the cleverest person in the room is usually not who you expect. The humor is sharp, the observations about society even sharper, and the moral lessons arrive disguised as punchlines. For readers who loved the Arabian Nights but craved something grittier, these constable tales offer a Cairo that feels lived-in, dangerous, and endlessly entertaining.
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“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.””
— Unknown
“He also sware himself by a binding oath that whatever wife he married he would abate her maidenhead at night and slay her next morning to make sure of his honour;””
— Unknown
“in presence, he summoned the Wazir Dandan, and the Emirs””
— Unknown
“les turpitudes, are matters of time and place;””
— Unknown
“In this world there is none thou mayst count upon * To befriend thy case in the nick of need: So live for thyself nursing hope of none * Such counsel I give thee: enow, take heed!””
— Unknown
“Apparently England is ever forgetting that she is at present the greatest Mohammedan empire in the world. Of late years she has systematically neglected Arabism and, indeed, actively discouraged it in examinations for the Indian Civil Service, where it is incomparably more valuable than Greek and Latin. Hence, when suddenly compelled to assume the reins of government in Moslem lands, as Afghanistan in times past and Egypt at present, she fails after a fashion which scandalises her few (very few) friends; and her crass ignorance concerning the Oriental peoples which should most interest her, exposes her to the contempt of Europe as well as of the Eastern world. When the regrettable raids of 1883-84, culminating in the miserable affairs of Tokar, Teb and Tamasi, were made upon the gallant Sudani negroids, the Bisharin outlying Sawakin, who were battling for the holy cause of liberty and religion and for escape from Turkish task-masters and Egyptian tax-gatherers, not an English official in camp, after the death of the gallant and lamented Major Morice, was capable of speaking Arabic. Now Moslems are not to be ruled by raw youths who should be at school and college instead of holding positions of trust and emolument. He who would deal with them successfully must be, firstly, honest and truthful and, secondly, familiar with and favourably inclined to their manners and customs if not to their law and religion.””
— Unknown
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