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Arabian Society Middle Ages, Paperback / softback Book

Arabian Society Middle Ages Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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First Published in 1995. Published a few years after the author’s death this text offers explanatory notes for his translation of The Thousand and One Nights.

The editor Lane had utilized as the main basis for this the Arabic text printed at the press of Biilaq in the suburbs of Cairo established by the Pasha Muhammad 'Ali, but had enriched it by a copious commentary.

Since the stories making up the Nights illustrate almost the whole gamut of public and settled domestic life in the Arab Middle Ages, from the opulent surroundings of Caliphs and Sultans to the humblest dwellings of petty tradesmen and bazaar artisans, Lane was able to construct on these foundations a remarkably detailed picture of society as it functioned in the urban centres of Mediaeval Islam.

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