[PDF] Arabian Night Patrol eBook

Author : Ian Thewlis
Publisher : Silverwood Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781328194

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Saudi Arabia - a desert oil camp during the Gulf War and genesis of the War on Terror. Fighter jets screech overhead, air raid sirens blare over the call of the muezzin, and duels between Scud and Patriot missiles illuminate the night sky. In the tradition of Graham Greene and John Le Carr , this political thriller explores the conflicting perspectives and loyalties of Westerners and Arabs under the pressures of war and threat of terrorism. 'The Middle East is a snake pit, ' says Rick, the camp's security boss. 'We can't be Boy Scouts in this war.'

Author : Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Folk literature, Arabic
ISBN : 0393331660

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A translation based on a reconstruction of the earliest extant manuscript version of the famous tales offers the stories told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse.

Author : Muhsin Mahdi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393242404

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Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories. The stories of The Arabian Nights (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories) are famously told by the Princess Shahrazad, under the threat of death should the king lose interest in her tale. Collected over the centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from adventure fantasies, vivacious erotica, and animal fables, to pointed Sufi tales, these stories provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory. No one knows exactly when a given story originated, and many circulated orally for centuries before being written down; but in the process of telling and retelling, they were modified to reflect the general life and customs of the Arab society that adapted them—a distinctive synthesis that marks the cultural and artistic history of Islam. This translation is of the complete text of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and considered to be the most authentic.