The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla) (2 vols.)

eb The Classic Edition by Muhsin S. Mahdi (1984-1994) with a New Introduction by Aboubakr Chraïbi
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-25649-1
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2644 g

This is a paperback reprint in two volumes of Muhsin Mahdi’s classic edition of the oldest preserved manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, which was originally published in three volumes (1984-1994). The reprint includes the original survey (in Arabic) of both the print and manuscript traditions of The Thousand and One Nights, with extensive notes and four appendices.

Volume 1. Introduction by Aboubakr Chraïbi; Preface by Muhsin Mahdi; Arabic Text
Volume 2. Critical Apparatus; Description of Manuscripts; Indexes, Errata by Ibrahim Akel

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahdi, Muhsin S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Chraïbi, Aboubakr

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Über Autor(innen)

Muhsin Mahdi (1926-2007), Phd. University of Chicago, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic at Harvard University (from 1969 until his retirement in 1996). He was a leading authority on Arabian history, philology, and philosophy. This first critical edition of The Thousand and One Nights is his best known work.