The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05

By Richard F. Burton
Michael Caine
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Length18h 19m

About this audiobook

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1885), is a celebrated English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the "Arabian Nights") – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by the British explorer and Arabist Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction
Length18 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 24, 2017
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Ebony Horse.1
39Di’ibil Al-Khuza’i with the Lady and Muslim Bin Al-Walid.
2Uns Al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Al-Ward FI’L-Akmam Or Rose-IN-Hood.1
40Isaac of Mosul and the Merchant.
3Abu Nowas with the Three Boys and the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid1
41The Three Unfortunate Lovers.
4Abdallah Bin Ma’amar with the Man of Bassorah and His Slave-Girl.
42How Abu Hasan Brake Wind.
5The Lovers of the Banu1 Ozrah
43The Lovers of the Banu Tayy.
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6Wazir of Al-Yaman and his Young Brother
44The Mad Lover.
7The Loves of the Boy and Girl at School
45The Prior Who Became A Moslem.
8Al-Mutalammis and his Wife Umaymah
46The Loves of Abu Isa and Kurrat Al-Ayn.
9The Caliph Harum Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah in the Bath
47Al-Amin Son of Al-Rashid and his Uncle Ibrahim Bin Al-Mahdi.
10Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Poets
48Al-Fath Bin Khakan and the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil.
11Mus’ab Bin Al-Zubayr and Ayishah his Wife
49The Man’s Dispute with the Learned Woman Concerning the Relative Excellence of Male and Female.
12Abu Al-Aswad and his Slave-Girl
50Abu Suwayd and the Pretty Old Woman.
13Harun Al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls
51The Emir Ali Bin Tahir and the Girl Muunis.
14The Caliph Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Slave-Girls
52The Woman Who Had A Boy and the Other Who Had A Man to Lover.
15The Miller and his Wife
53Ali the Cairene and the Haunted House in Baghdad.
16The Simpleton and the Sharper
54The Pilgrim Man and the Old Woman.
17The Kazi Abu Yusuf with Harun Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah
55Abu Al-Husn and his Slave-Girl Tawaddud.1 (pt. 1)
18The Caliph Al-Hakim1 and the Merchant
56Abu Al-Husn and his Slave-Girl Tawaddud.1 (pt. 2)
19King Kisra Anushirwan1 and the Village Damsel
57The Angel of Death with the Proud King and the Devout Man.
20Water-Carrier1 and the Goldsmith’s Wife
58The Angel of Death and the Rich King.
21Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman
59The Angel of Death and the King of the Children of Israel.
22Yahya Bin Khalid the Barmecide and the Poor Man
60Iskandar Zu Al-Karnayn1 and a Certain Tribe of Poor Folk.
23Mohammed Al-Amin and the Slave-Girl
61The Righteousness of King Anushirwan.1
24The Sons of Yahya Bin Khalid and Sa’id Bin Salim Al-Bahili
62The Jewish Kazi and his Pious Wife.
25The Woman’s Trick Against her Husband
63The Shipwrecked Woman and her Child.
26The Devout Woman and the Two Wicked Elders1
64The Pious Black Slave.
27Ja’afar the Barmecide and the Old Badawl
65The Devout Tray-Maker and his Wife.
28The Caliph Omar Bin Al-Khattab and the Young Badawi
66Al-Hajjaj and the Pious Man.
29The Caliph Al-Maamun and the Pyramids1 of Egypt
67The Blacksmith Who Could Handle Fire Without Hurt.
30The Thief and the Merchant
68The Devotee to Whom Allah Gave A Cloud for Service and the Devout King.
31Masrur the Eunuch and Ibn Al-Karibi
69The Moslem Champion and the Christian Damsel.
32The Devotee Prince
70The Christian King’s Daughter and the Moslem.
33The Unwise Schoolmaster Who Fell in Love by Report
71The Prophet and the Justice of Providence.
34The Foolish Dominie1
72The Ferryman of the Nile and the Hermit.
35Illiterate Who Set Up for A Schoolmaster
73The Island King and the Pious Israelite.
36The King and the Virtuous Wife.
74Abu Al-Hasan and Abu Ja’afar the Leper.1
37Abd Al-Rahman the Maghribi’s Story of the Rukh.1
75The Queen of the Serpents.1 (pt. 1)
38Adi Bin Zayd and the Princess Hind.
76The Queen of the Serpents.1 (pt. 2)

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