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- The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights.
- About the Author: Ḥannā Diyāb (Author) Ḥannā Diyāb (b. ca. 1687) was a Syrian traveler originally from Aleppo.
- 340 Pages
- Literary Collections, Middle Eastern
- Series Name: Library of Arabic Literature
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Text and parallel translation of manuscript class marked 254, Sbath collection, Vatican Apostolic Library.Book Synopsis
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin
The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights.
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"Diyab's memoir of his Mediterranean adventures is a mixture of clear-eyed observation and wide-eyed innocence, nicely captured by Muhanna's lucid yet folksy English version...Throughout The Book of Travels, realistic details are suffused with a sense of the marvelous."-- "New York Review of Books"
"It is a joy to celebrate [Ḥannā Diyāb's] work in Elias Muhanna's vibrant translation."-- "Middle East Eye"
About the Author
Ḥannā Diyāb (Author)
Ḥannā Diyāb (b. ca. 1687) was a Syrian traveler originally from Aleppo. He is best known for his contributions to Antoine Galland's translation of the Thousand and One Nights.
Johannes Stephan is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project Kalīlah and Dimnah--AnonymClassic at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Halle an der Saale, Damascus, and Bern. Elias Muhanna (Translator)
Elias Muhanna is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition and translator of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī's fourteenth-century Arabic compendium The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, which was chosen as a "Best Book of 2016" by NPR and The Guardian, and editor of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies.
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