The book of travels : volume two / Ḥannā Diyāb ; edited by Johannes Stephen ; translated by Elias Muhanna ; foreword by Yasmine Seale ; afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
2021
DS47.2 .D59 2021
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The book of travels : volume two / Ḥannā Diyāb ; edited by Johannes Stephen ; translated by Elias Muhanna ; foreword by Yasmine Seale ; afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson.
Added T.P.Title
Kitāb al-Siyāḥah
ISBN
1479806269
9781479806263 (electronic bk.)
9781479806263 (electronic bk.)
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource (vii, 330 pages)
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DS47.2 .D59 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
910.9182/209033
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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Stephan, Johannes, editor
Muhanna, Elias, translator.
Seale, Yasmine, writer of foreword.
Horta, Paulo Lemos, writer of afterword.
Cooperson, Michael, volume editor.
Muhanna, Elias, translator.
Seale, Yasmine, writer of foreword.
Horta, Paulo Lemos, writer of afterword.
Cooperson, Michael, volume editor.
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Library of Arabic literature.
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Table of Contents
Our Arrival in Paris, in October 1708
The Last Days of 1708
In the Lands of the East
Afterword : Ḥannā Diyāb and the Thousand and One Nights
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms.
The Last Days of 1708
In the Lands of the East
Afterword : Ḥannā Diyāb and the Thousand and One Nights
Notes
Glossary of Names and Terms.