The book of travels : volume one / Ḥannā Diyāb ; edited by Johannes Stephen ; translated by Elias Muhanna ; foreword by Yasmine Seale ; afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
Diyāb, Ḥannā, approximately 1687-; Stephan, Johannes, editor; Muhanna, Elias, translator.; Seale, Yasmine, writer of foreword; Horta, Paulo Lemos, writer of afterword.; Cooperson, Michael, volume editor.
2021
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Title The book of travels : volume one / Ḥannā Diyāb ; edited by Johannes Stephen ; translated by Elias Muhanna ; foreword by Yasmine Seale ; afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
Author Diyāb, Ḥannā, approximately 1687-
Added T.P.Title Kitāb al-Siyāḥah
ISBN 9781479837274 electronic book
147983727X electronic book
Published New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xlii, 338 pages).
Call Number DS49.7 .D59 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 892.734
Summary The adventures of the man who created Aladdin, The Book of Travels is Ḥanna Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights. Diyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, Ḥanna Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of The Thousand and One Nights several tales related by Diyāb, including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyāb at Louis XIV's Royal Library, Diyāb returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean to quack medicine and near-death experiences. Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Travels introduces readers to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved stories from The Thousand and One Nights. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
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Added Author Stephan, Johannes, editor
Muhanna, Elias, translator.
Seale, Yasmine, writer of foreword
Horta, Paulo Lemos, writer of afterword.
Cooperson, Michael, volume editor.
Series Library of Arabic Literature ; v.71
Library of Arabic literature.
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Foreword / Yasmine Seale
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Note on the Text
Notes to the Introduction
Chapter One
My Departure from Tripoli in the Company of the Traveler Paul Lucas, in the Month of February 1707 of the Christian Era
My First Time at Sea with Paul Lucas, in the Month of May 1707
Our Voyage to Egypt and What Happened to Us in the Month of June 1707
Our Travels to the Maghreb in the Year 1708
Our Journey to the Lands of the Franks in the Year 1708
Our Voyage to France
Our Journey from Provence to France and the City of Paris
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms.

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