Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)
1888
Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 5 (of 6)
1888
Translated by Richard Francis, Sir Burton
The fifth volume of Richard Francis Burton's monumental 1888 translation plunges readers deeper into the labyrinthine storytelling tradition that has enchanted audiences for centuries. At its heart lies the tale of a prince from Sind, whose obsession with the luminous Lady Fatimah drives him to confront the impossible trials set by her fearsome father. He must navigate enchanted kingdoms, outwit shape-shifting djinn, and survive tests of courage that would break lesser men, all while the very fabric of reality bends to reveal deeper truths about desire and destiny. These are not mere fairy tales: they are philosophical puzzles wrapped in adventure, Sufi wisdom disguised as entertainment, and erotic vignettes that pulse with raw life. The frame narrative of Shahrazad, spinning her stories through the night to escape death, transforms every tale into a matter of life and death. What makes the Arabian Nights endures is its infinite recursion, stories nesting inside stories like dreams inside dreams, each layer revealing something new about human ambition, love, and the desperate need to be remembered.
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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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