- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Arabian Nights
Arabian Nights
- Chapter:
- (p.401) 21 Arabian Nights
- Source:
- Edward William Lane 1801–1876
- Author(s):
Jason Thompson
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
Another letter arrived two days after the rejection of Description of Egypt. This one was from Charles Knight, asking for a meeting to discuss terms for a new translation of A Thousand and One Nights also known as the Arabian Nights. Knight called on Lane in Kensington early the following week, where they confirmed their agreement. The Arabian Nights had become a literary classic in the West, and there was a clearly demonstrable need for a new English translation. Its origin lay in clusters of folk tales that circulated orally for centuries around the Middle East and beyond. The Arabian Nights became so popular in England that there were more than eighty editions of various kinds by the end of the eighteenth century, and that may well be a conservative estimate.
Keywords: Charles Knight, Arabian Nights, English translation, Middle East
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Note on Transliteration and Spelling
- Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Prologue
-
1 A Zealous Attachment -
2 An Eastern Bridegroom -
3 Altogether an Arabian City -
4 Mansur Effendi -
5 A Closer Acquaintance with Cairo -
6 Never a More Happy Time -
7 Life on the Nile -
8 Nubia -
9 Hundred-Gated Thebes -
10 Minarets and Pyramids -
11 A Second Voyage to Nubia -
12 Nefeeseh -
13 Culture Shock -
14 Description of Egypt -
15 Manners and Costumes -
16 Old Musr Once More -
17 Blackening Many Quires -
18 Perception and Reality -
19 The Great Plague of 1835 -
20 Not a Mummy Crosses His Path -
21 Arabian Nights -
22 Scholar and Man of Letters -
23 Midlife -
24 An English Harem in Egypt -
25 Harat al-Sakkayin -
26 The Englishwoman in Egypt -
27 Suq al-Qawadis -
28 Hastings -
29 Worthing -
30 The Arabic-English Lexicon - Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
