THE KHALIF OMAR BEN KHETTAB AND THE YOUNG BEDOUIN.
THE KHALIF EL MAMOUN AND THE PYRAMIDS OF EGYPT.
THE THIEF TURNED MERCHANT AND THE OTHER THIEF.
MESROUR THE EUNUCH AND IBN EL CARIBI
THE DEVOUT PRINCE.
THE SCHOOLMASTER WHO FELL IN LOVE BY REPORT.
THE FOOLISH SCHOOLMASTER
THE IGNORANT MAN WHO SET UP FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.
THE KING AND THE VIRTUOUS WIFE
ABDURREHMAN THE MOOR’S STORY OF THE ROC.
ADI BEN ZEID AND THE PRINCESS HIND.
DIBIL EL KHUZAÏ WITH THE LADY AND MUSLIM BEN EL WELID.
ISAAC OF MOSUL AND THE MERCHANT.
THE THREE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS.
THE LOVERS OF THE BENOU TAI.
THE MAD LOVER.
THE APPLES OF PARADISE.
THE LOVES OF ABOU ISA AND CURRET EL AIN.
EL AMIN BEN ER RESHID AND HIS UNCLE IBRAHIM BEN EL MEHDI.
EL FETH BEN KHACAN AND THE KHALIF EL MUTAWEKKIL.
THE MAN’S DISPUTE WITH THE LEARNED WOMAN OF THE RELATIVE EXCELLENCE OF THE MALE AND THE FEMALE.
ABOU SUWEID AND THE HANDSOME OLD WOMAN.
THE AMIR ALI BEN TAHIR AND THE GIRL MOUNIS.
THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BOY AND THE OTHER WHO HAD A MAN TO LOVER.
THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN BAGHDAD.
THE PILGRIM AND THE OLD WOMAN WHO DWELT IN THE DESERT.
ABOULHUSN AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL TAWEDDUD.
VOLUME V.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD KING AND THE DEVOUT MAN.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE RICH KING.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
ISKENDER DHOULKERNEIN AND A CERTAIN TRIBE OF POOR FOLK.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF KING ANOUSHIRWAN.
THE JEWISH CADI AND HIS PIOUS WIFE.
THE SHIPWRECKED WOMAN AND HER CHILD.
THE PIOUS BLACK SLAVE.
THE DEVOUT PLATTER-MAKER AND HIS WIFE.
EL HEJJAJ AND THE PIOUS MAN.
THE BLACKSMITH WHO COULD HANDLE FIRE WITHOUT HURT.
THE DEVOTEE TO WHOM GOD GAVE A CLOUD TO SERVE HIM AND THE DEVOUT KING.
THE MUSLIM CHAMPION AND THE CHRISTIAN DAMSEL.
IBRAHIM BEN EL KHAWWAS AND THE CHRISTIAN KING’S DAUGHTER.
THE JUSTICE OF PROVIDENCE.
THE FERRYMAN OF THE NILE AND THE HERMIT.
THE KING OF THE ISLAND.
ABOULHUSN ED DURRAJ AND ABOU JAAFER THE LEPER.
THE QUEEN OF SERPENTS
The Adventures of Beloukiya
The Story of Janshah
SINDBAD THE SAILOR AND SINDBAD THE PORTER.
The First Voyage Of’ Sindbad the Sailor.
The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
The Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
The Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
The Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor.
THE CITY OF BRASS
THE MALICE OF WOMEN.
The King and His Vizier’s Wife.
The Merchant’s Wife and the Parrot.
The Fuller and His Son.
The Lover’s Trick Against the Chaste Wife.
The Niggard and the Loaves of Bread.
The Lady and Her Two Lovers.
The King’s Son and the Ogress.
The Drop of Honey.
The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dust.
The Enchanted Springs.
The Vizier’s Son and the Bathkeeper’s Wife.
The Wife’s Device to Cheat Her Husband.
The Goldsmith and the Cashmere Singing-girl
The Man Who Never Laughed Again.
The King’s Son and the Merchant’s Wife.
The Page Who Feigned to Know the Speech of Birds.
The Lady and Her Five Suitors.
The Man Who Saw the Night of Power.
The Stolen Necklace.
The Two Pigeons
Story of Prince Behram of Persia and the Princess Ed Detma.
The House with the Belvedere.
The King’s Son and the Afrits Mistress.
The Sandal-wood Merchant and the Sharpers.
The Debauchee and the Three-year-old Child.
The Stolen Purse.
Story of the Fox and the Folk.
VOLUME VI.
JOUDER AND HIS BROTHERS.
THE HISTORY OF GHERIB AND HIS BROTHER AGIB.
OTBEH AND REYYA.
HIND DAUGHTER OF EN NUMAN AND EL HEJJAJ.
KHUZEIMEH BEN BISHR AND IKRIMEH EL FEYYAZ.
YOUNUS THE SCRIBE AND THE KHALIF WELID BEN SEHL.
THE KHALIF HAROUN ER RESHID AND THE ARAB GIRL
EL ASMAÏ AND THE THREE GIRLS OF BASSORA.
IBRAHIM OF MOSUL AND THE DEVIL.
THE LOVERS OF THE BENOU UDHREH.
THE BEDOUIN AND HIS WIFE.
THE LOVERS OF BASSORA.
ISAAC OF MOSUL AND HIS MISTRESS AND THE DEVIL
THE LOVERS OF MEDINA.
EL MELIK EN NASIR AND HIS VIZIER
THE ROGUERIES OF DELILEH THE CRAFTY AND HER DAUGHTER ZEYNEB THE TRICKSTRESS.
ARDESHIR AND HEYAT EN NUFOUS.
VOLUME VII.
JULNAR OF THE SEA AND HER SON KING BEDR BASIM OF PERSIA.
KING MOHAMMED BEN SEBAÏK AND THE MERCHANT HASSAN.
Story of Prince Seif el Mulouk and the Princess Bediya el Jemal.
HASSAN OF BASSORA AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF THE JINN.
KHELIFEH THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD.
Appendix.
KHELIF THE FISHERMAN OF BAGHDAD.
VOLUME VIII.
MESROUR AND ZEIN EL MEWASIF.
ALI NOUREDDIN AND THE FRANK KING’S DAUGHTER.
THE MAN OF UPPER EGYPT AND HIS FRANK WIFE.
THE RUINED MAN OF BAGHDAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
KING JELYAAD OF HIND AND HIS VIZIER SHIMAS; WHEREAFTER ENSUETH THE HISTORY OF KING WIRD KHAN, SON OF KING JELYAAD, WITH HIS WOMEN AND VIZIERS.
The Cat and the Mouse
The Fakir and His Pot of Butter.
The Fishes and the Crab.
The Crow and the Serpent.
The Fox and the Wild Ass.
The Unjust King and the Pilgrim Prince
The Crows and the Hawk.
The Serpent-charmer and His Wife.
The Spider and the Wind.
The Two Kings.
The Blind Man and the Cripple.
The Foolish Fisherman.
The Boy and the Thieves.
The Man and His Wilful Wife.
The Merchant and the Thieves.
The Foxes and the Wolf.
The Shepherd and the Thief.
The Heathcock and the Tortoises.
ABOUKIR THE DYER AND ABOUSIR THE BARBER.
ABDALLAH THE FISHERMAN AND ABDALLAH THE MERMAN.
VOLUME IX.
THE MERCHANT OF OMAN.
IBRAHIM AND JEMILEH.
ABOULHUSN OF KHORASSAN.
KEMEREZZEMAN AND THE JEWELLER’S WIFE.
ABDALLAH BEN FAZIL AND HIS BROTHERS.
MAROUF THE COBBLER AND HIS WIFE FATIMEH.
INDEX TO THE TALES.
THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT: ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER.
I.
II.
III.
VOLUME X. Tales from the Arabic I
ASLEEP AND AWAKE
STORY OF THE LACKPENNY AND THE COOK.
THE KHALIF OMAR BEN ABDULAZIZ AND THE POETS.
EL HEJJAJ AND THE THREE YOUNG MEN.
HAROUN ER RESHID AND THE WOMAN OF THE BARMECIDES.
THE TEN VIZIERS; OR THE HISTORY OF KING AZADBEKHT AND HIS SON.
The First Day.
OF THE USELESSNESS OF ENDEAVOUR AGAINST PERSISTENT ILL FORTUNE.
Story of the Unlucky Merchant.
OF LOOKING TO THE ISSUES OF AFFAIRS.
Story of
the Merchant and His Sons.
The Third Day.
OF THE ADVANTAGES OF PATIENCE.
STORY OF ABOU SABIR.
The Fourth Day.
OF THE ILL EFFECTS OF PRECIPITATION.
STORY OF PRINCE BIHZAD.
OF THE ISSUES OF GOOD AND EVIL ACTIONS.
STORY OF KING DADBIN AND HIS VIZIERS.
OF TRUST IN GOD.
STORY OF KING BEKHTZEMAN.
The Seventh Day.
OF CLEMENCY.
STORY OF KING BIHKERD.
The Eighth Day.
OF ENVY AND MALICE.
STORY OF ILAN SHAH AND ABOU TEMAM.
The Ninth Day
OF DESTINY OR THAT WHICH IS WRITTEN ON THE FOREHEAD.
STORY OF KING IBRAHIM AND HIS SON.
The Tenth Day.
OF THE APPOINTED TERM, WHICH, IF IT BE ADVANCED, MAY NOT BE DEFERRED AND IF IT BE DEFERRED, MAY NOT BE ADVANCED.
STORY OF KING SULEIMAN SHAH AND HIS SONS.
The Eleventh Day.
OF THE SPEEDY RELIEF OF GOD.
STORY OF THE PRISONER AND HOW GOD GAVE HIM RELIEF.
JAAFER BEN YEHYA AND ABDULMEILIK BEN SALIH THE ABBASIDE.
ER RESHID AND THE BARMECIDES.
IBN ES SEMMAK AND ER RESHID.
EL MAMOUN AND ZUBEIDEH
EN NUMAN AND THE ARAB OF THE BENOU TAI.
FIROUZ AND HIS WIFE
KING SHAH BEKHT AND HIS VIZIER ER REHWAN.
STORY OF THE MAN OF KHORASSAN, HIS SON AND HIS GOVERNOR.
STORY OF THE SINGER AND THE DRUGGIST.
STORY OF THE KING WHO KNEW THE QUINTESSENCE OF THINGS.
The Fourth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE RICH MAN WHO GAVE HIS FAIR DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE TO THE POOR OLD MAN.
STORY OF THE RICH MAN AND HIS WASTEFUL SON.
THE KING’S SON WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PICTURE.
The Seventh Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE FULLER AND HIS WIFE.
The Eight Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE OLD WOMAN, THE MERCHANT AND THE KING.
The Ninth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE CREDULOUS HUSBAND
The Tenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE UNJUST KING AND THE TITHER.
STORY OF DAVID AND SOLOMON.
The Eleventh Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE THIEF AND THE WOMAN.
And the king bade him depart to his own house.
STORY OF THE THREE MEN AND OUR LORD JESUS.
THE DISCIPLE’S STORY.
The Thirteenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE DETHRONED KING WHOSE KINGDOM AND GOOD WERE RESTORED TO HIM.
The Fourteenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE MAN WHOSE CAUTION WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.
The Fifteenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE MAN WHO WAS LAVISH OF HIS HOUSE AND HIS VICTUAL TO ONE WHOM HE KNEW NOT.
The Sixteenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE IDIOT AND THE SHARPER.
The Seventeenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF KHELBES AND HIS WIFE AND THE LEARNED MAN.
VOLUME XI. Tales from the Arabic II
STORY OF THE PIOUS WOMAN ACCUSED OF LEWDNESS.
The Nineteenth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE JOURNEYMAN AND THE GIRL.
The Twentieth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE WEAVER WHO BECAME A PHYSICIAN BY HIS WIFE’S COMMANDMENT.
The Twenty-First Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE TWO SHARPERS WHO CHEATED EACH HIS FELLOW.
The Twenty-Second Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE SHARPERS WITH THE MONEY-CHANGER AND THE ASS.
The Twenty-Third Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE SHARPER AND THE MERCHANTS.
STORY OF THE HAWK AND THE LOCUST.
The Twenty-Fourth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE KING AND HIS CHAMBERLAIN’S WIFE.
STORY OF THE OLD WOMAN AND THE DRAPER’S WIFE.
The Twenty-fifth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE FOUL-FAVOURED MAN AND HIS FAIR WIFE.
The Twenty-Sixth Night of the Month.
STORY OF THE KING WHO LOST KINGDOM AND WIFE AND WEALTH AND GOD RESTORED THEM TO HIM.
STORY OF SELIM AND SELMA.
STORY OF THE KING OF HIND AND HIS VIZIER.
SHEHRZAD AND SHEHRIYAR.
EL MELIK EZ ZAHIR RUKNEDDIN BIBERS EL BUNDUCDARI AND THE SIXTEEN OFFICERS OF POLICE.
THE FIRST OFFICER’S STORY.
THE SECOND OFFICER’S STORY.
THE THIRD OFFICER’S STORY
THE FOURTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE FIFTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE SIXTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE SEVENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE EIGHTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE THIEF’S STORY.
THE NINTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE TENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE ELEVENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE TWELFTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE THIRTEENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE FOURTEENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
A MERRY JEST OF A THIEF.
STORY OF THE OLD SHARPER.
THE FIFTEENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
THE SIXTEENTH OFFICER’S STORY.
ABDALLAH BEN NAFI AND THE KING’S SON OF CASHGHAR.
STORY OF THE DAMSEL TUHFET EL CULOUB AND THE KHALIF HAROUN ER RESHID.
Calcutta (1814-18) Text.
NOTE.
WOMEN’S CRAFT.
VOLUME XII. Tales from the Arabic III
NOUREDDIN ALI OF DAMASCUS AND THE DAMSEL SITT EL MILAH.
Then she arose and returned to her chamber.
And when she had made an end of her song, she wept sore.
EL ABBAS AND THE KING’S DAUGHTER OF BAGHDAD.
SHEHRZAD AND SHEHRIYAR.
THE TWO KINGS AND THE VIZIER’S DAUGHTERS.
THE FAVOURITE AND HER LOVER.
THE MERCHANT OF CAIRO AND THE FAVOURITE OF THE KHALIF EL MAMOUN EL HAKIM BI AMRILLAH.
SHEHRZAD AND SHEHRIYAR.
NOTE.
SINDBAD THE SAILOR AND HINDBAD THE PORTER.
THE SIXTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR.
SINDBAD THE SAILOR AND HINDBAD THE PORTER.
THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SAILOR.
NOTE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE UNFINISHED CALCUTTA (1814-18) EDITION (FIRST TWO HUNDRED NIGHTS ONLY) OF THE ARABIC TEXT OF THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT.
ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF THE FIRST LINES OF THE VERSE IN THE “TALES FROM THE ARABIC.”
INDEX TO THE NAMES OF THE “TALES FROM THE ARABIC”
VOLUME XIII. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp
INTRODUCTION.
ZEIN UL ASNAM AND THE KING OF THE JINN.
ALAEDDIN AND THE ENCHANTED LAMP.
PAYNE TRANSLATION: DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON 1885 TRANSLATION
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, spy, linguist, poet and diplomat. He was famous for his travels and explorations in Asia, Africa and the Americas, as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one source, he spoke 29 European, Asian and African languages. In literary terms, Burton’s best-known achievements include his translation of One Thousand and One Nights and the publication of the Kama Sutra in English.
During his travels, Burton developed an appreciation and respect for many different forms of cultures. His works and letters extensively criticised colonial policies of the British Empire, even to the detriment of his career. He was a prolific and erudite author and wrote numerous books and scholarly articles about subjects including human behaviour, travel, falconry, fencing, sexual practices and ethnography. A characteristic feature of his books is the copious footnotes and appendices containing remarkable observations and informat
ion.
Burton was a captain in the army of the East India Company, serving in India (and later, briefly, in the Crimean War). Following this, he was engaged by the Royal Geographical Society to explore the east coast of Africa and led an expedition guided by the locals and was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika. In later life, he served as British consul in Fernando Pó, Santos, Damascus and, finally, Trieste. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded a knighthood (KCMG) in 1886.
One of Burton’s most celebrated achievements is his 1885 translation of One Thousand and One Nights in ten volumes, with a further six books following later. The volumes were printed by the Kama Shastra Society in a subscribers-only edition of one thousand with a guarantee that there would never be a larger printing of the books in this form. The stories collected were often sexual in content and were considered pornography at the time of publication. In particular, the Terminal Essay in volume 10 of the Nights contained a 14,000-word essay entitled “Pederasty” (Volume 10, section IV, D), at the time a synonym for homosexuality. This was and remained for many years the longest and most explicit discussion of homosexuality in any language. Burton speculated that male homosexuality was prevalent in an area of the southern latitudes named by him the “Sotadic zone”. Rumours about Burton’s own sexuality were already circulating and were further incited by this work.
Burton’s writings are unusually open and frank about his interest in sex and sexuality. His travel writing is often full of details about the sexual lives of the inhabitants of areas he travelled through. Burton’s interest in sexuality led him to make measurements of the lengths of the sexual organs of male inhabitants of various regions which he includes in his travel books. He also describes sexual techniques common in the regions he visited, often hinting that he had also participated, breaking sexual and racial taboos of his day. Consequently, many people at the time considered the Kama Shastra Society and the books it published scandalous.
Sir Richard Francis Burton, c. 1860
CONTENTS
VOLUME ONE
FOOTNOTES VOLUME I.
VOLUME II.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME II.
VOLUME III.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME III.
VOLUME IV.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME IV.
VOLUME V.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME V.
VOLUME VI.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME VI.
VOLUME VII.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME VII.
VOLUME VIII.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME VIII.
VOLUME IX.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME IX.
VOLUME X.
FOOTNOTES VOLUME X.
SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS VOLUME I.
FOOTNOTES SUPPLEMENTAL VOLUME I.
SUPPLEMENTAL NIGHTS VOLUME II.
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