One Thousand and One Nights
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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as The Arabian Nights, from the firs
Sindbad the sailor and Ali Baba and the forty thieves by William Strang, 1896
Scheherazade and Shahryar by Ferdinand Keller, 1880
1898 illustration of The Fisherman and the Jinni by René Bull
A page from Kelileh va Demneh dated 1429, from Herat, a Persian version of the original ancient Indian Panchatantra – depicts the manipulative jackal-vizier, Dimna, trying to lead his lion-king into war.
Sinbad the Sailor
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Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate. In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas e
Sinbad the Sailor: "Having balanced my cargo exactly..." Drawing by Milo Winter (1914)
South Indian Sindbad-namah, 16th century
Sinbad the Sailor and the Valley of the Diamonds, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish
Sinbad's third voyage. Encounter with a man-eating giant, illustrated by Henry Justice Ford