Scheherazade

25 07, 2017

Arabian Nights – Medieval Islamic Literature

By |2019-01-30T05:55:43-08:00July 25th, 2017|Islam, Literature|Comments Off on Arabian Nights – Medieval Islamic Literature

Princess (ca. 1540 AD) How old are the Arabian Nights stories? People in India and Iran have been telling these stories for a long time - nobody knows how long. Around 850 AD, an Iranian [...]

25 07, 2017

Aladdin and the Lamp – Arabian Nights

By |2019-01-20T15:48:01-08:00July 25th, 2017|Islam, Literature|Comments Off on Aladdin and the Lamp – Arabian Nights

An Islamic oil lamp like Aladdin's lamp, from the University of Michigan Scheherazade tells Aladdin's story This is one of the stories Scheherazade told the king. Scheherazade's Arabian Nights Sinbad [...]

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