by Tahir Shah
Tagine: a popular Moroccan stew, named after the round conical vessel in which it is cooked. Also incorrectly used to refer to any dish prepared in such a vessel.
Tarboosh: a hard felt or velvet-covered hat, usually in maroon or green, known incorrectly in the West as a 'fez'.
Tuareg: an ethnic group, possibly of Berber origin, residing in the southern deserts and in the Sahara.
Vizier: literally 'bearer of burdens'; referring to a high-ranking adviser or minister, especially during the time in which A Thousand and One Nights was set.
Zaouia: a centre of reflective study often built beside the tomb of a religious figure or saint.
RECOMMENDED READING
Arabian Nights
Les Mille et une nuit, contes arabes, Translated by Antoine Galland, 1705–17
The Thousand and One Nights, Translated by John Payne, 1882–84
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entitled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Translated by Richard F. Burton, 1885–88
The Thousand and One Days: A Companion to the Arabian Nights, Miss J. Pardoe, 1857
The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Robert Irwin, 1994
The Arabian Nights and Orientalism, Edited by Yuriko Yamanaka and Tetsuo Nishio, 2006
The Earlier History of the Arabian Nights, D. B. MacDonald, 1924
The Arabian Nights: A Structural Analysis, Ferial Ghazoul, 1980
Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights, David Pinault, 1992
The Teaching Story
Caravan of Dreams, Idries Shah, 1968
The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin, Idries Shah, 1968
World Tales, Idries Shah, 1979
Tales of the Dervishes, Idries Shah, 1967
The World of Nasrudin, Idries Shah, 2003
The Way of the Sufi, Idries Shah, 1968
Arabian Fairy Tales, Amina Shah, 1989
Kalila and Dimna, Retold by Ramsay Wood, 1980
Problems, Myths and Stories, Doris Lessing, 1999
The Past We Share: The Near Eastern Ancestry of Western Folk Literature, E. L. Ranelagh, 1979
Antar and Abla, Diana Richmond, 1978
Arab Folktales, Translated by Inea Bushnaq, 1986
Art of Story-Telling, Mia Gerhardt, 1963
The Secret of Laughter, Shusha Guppy, 2005
Illustrated Children's Books by Idries Shah
The Farmer's Wife
The Man With Bad Manners
The Boy Without a Name
The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water
The Magic Horse
The Old Woman and the Eagle
The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal
The Silly Chicken
Neem the Half-Boy
The Man and the Fox
Fatima: the Spinner and the Tent
Morocco
Morocco: A Traveller's Companion, Margaret and Robin Bidwell, 1992
Marrakech: Through Writers' Eyes, Edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Stephen Lavington, 2006
Wit and Wisdom of Morocco, Edward Westermarck, 1931
Saints and Sorcerers, Nina Epton, 1958
Lords of the Atlas, Gavin Maxwell, 1966
Cadogan Morocco, Barnaby Rogerson, 2000
Ritual and Belief in Morocco, Edward Westermarck, 1926
Miscellaneous
Love With a Few Hairs, Mohammed Mrabet, 1986
The Devil Drives: A Biography of Richard Francis Burton, Fawn Brodie, 1967
A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel, Mary S. Lovell, 1998
The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas, R. G. Haliburton, 1891
The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin, 1987