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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night novel. A total of 542 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.Volume 1.by Richard F. Burton.Foreword.This work, labourious as it may appear, has been to me a labour of love, an unfailing source of solace and satisfaction. During my long years of official banishment to the
- 101 Answered Ala alDin, "The Arabs," and Mahmud said, "O my son, the mules and the baggage were thy ransom; so do thou comfort thyself with his saying who said, 'If thereby man can save his head from death, * His good is worth him but a sl
- 102 So she said to her husband, "Why and wherefore didest thou not buy him the girl?" and he replied, "What is fit for the lord is not fit for the liege and I have no power to take her: no less a man bought her than Ala Al-Din, Chief of the Six
- 103 Now Ma'an bin Zaidah went forth one day to the chase with his company, and they came upon a herd of gazelles; so they separated in pursuit and Ma'an was left alone to chase one of them. When he had made prize of it he alighted and slaughtered it
- 104 Kindness to him continue * Whether good or graceless wight: Abstain from all reproaching, * An he joy or vex thy sprite: Seest not that what thou lovest * And what hatest go unite?That joys of longer life-tide * Ever fade with hair turned white?That thorn
- 105 When it was the Two Hundred and Eighty-third Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that quoth the man, "So I turned aside with the donkey and stood still awaiting the dispersal of the crowd; and I saw a number of eunuchs with staves
- 106 When it was the Two Hundred and Ninety-first Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Jeweller continued: "Then she bent towards me and kissed and caressed me; and, as she caressed me, drew me towards her and to her breast she
- 107 TALE OF THE LOVER WHO FEIGNED HIMSELF A THIEF.When Khalid bin Abdallah al-Kasri[FN#218] was Emir of Ba.s.sorah, there came to him one day a company of men dragging a youth of exceeding beauty and lofty bearing and perfumed attire; whose aspect expressed g
- 108 Now when I heard this, O Commander of the Faithful, great concern get hold of me and I was beyond measure troubled, and behold, I heard a Voice from behind me extemporise these couplets, 'O Moslem! thou whose guide is Alcoran, * Joy in what brought s
- 109 'If a sharp-witted wight e'er tried mankind, * I've eaten that which only tasted he:[FN#257]Their amity proved naught but wile and guile, * Their faith I found was but hypocrisy.'"Quoth Ali, "O my father, I have heard thee an
- 110 Gather his charms all growths of Eden garth * Whereto those Kausar[FN#276]-lips bear testimony.'"When the broker heard the verses she repeated on the charms of Ali Shar, he marvelled at her eloquence, no less than at the brightness of her beauty
- 111 She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that quoth Kurdish Jawan to his mother, "Keep thou watch over her till I come back to thee at first dawn of day," and went his ways. Now Zumurrud said to herself, "Why am I so heedless about
- 112 quoth Harun: and Masrur went out and returned with Ibn Mansur, who said, on entering, "Peace be with thee, O Commander of the Faithful!" The Caliph returned his salutation and said to him, "O Ibn Mansur, tell us some of thy stories." S
- 113 She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the lady exclaimed, 'O Ibn Mansur, the night and the day s.h.i.+ft not upon anything but they bring to it change!' Then she raised her glance to heaven and said, 'O my G.o.d and my Leade
- 114 The man rejoiced and, emptying his cup, gave the girls to drink.Then he signed to the thin girl and said to her, 'O Houri of Paradise, feed thou our ears with sweet words and sounds.' So she took the lute; and, tuning it, preluded and sang these
- 115 If thou go to the water closet, thou needest one to wash thy gap and pluck out the hairs which overgrow it; and this is the extreme of sluggish ness and the sign, outward and visible, of stupidity[FN#376] In short, there is no good thing about thee, and i
- 116 She said, it hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Abu Nowas answered, "I hear and I obey, O Commander of the Faithful!" and forthwith he improvised these couplets, "Long was my night for sleepless misery; * Weary of body and of thought
- 117 Whereupon I brought out the hundred thousand dinars I had by me and gave it to them, thanking them for their kindness; and they pouched the monies and went their way, under cover of the night so that none might know of them. But when morning dawned I exam
- 118 ABU Ha.s.sAN AL-ZIYADI AND THE KHORASAN.Quoth Abu Ha.s.san al-Ziyadi[FN#417]: "I was once in straitened case and so needy that the grocer, the baker and other tradesmen dunned and importuned me; and my misery became extreme, for I knew of no resource
- 119 There was once a Sultan's daughter, whose heart was taken with love of a black slave: he abated her maidenhead and she became pa.s.sionately addicted to futtering, so that she could not do without it a single hour and complained of her case to one of
- 120 [FN#29] Arab. "Sikankur" (Gr. {Greek letters}, Lat. Scincus) a lizard (S. officinalis) which, held in the hand, still acts as an aphrodisiac in the East, and which in the Middle Ages was considered a universal-medicine. In the "Adja'ib
- 121 [FN#72] Lit. "The father of side-locks," a nickname of one of the Tobba Kings. This "Hasan of: the ringlets" who wore two long pig-tails hanging to his shoulders was the Rochester or Piron of his age: his name is still famous for brill
- 122 [FN#118] Arab. "Mininah"; a biscuit of flour and clarified b.u.t.ter.[FN#119] Arab. "Waybah"; the sixth part of the Ardabb=6 to 7 English gallons.[FN#120] He speaks in half-jest a la fellah; and reminds us of "Hangman, drive on th
- 123 [FN#161] He sinned only for the pleasure of being pardoned, which is poetical-and hardly practical-or probable.[FN#162] The Kata (sand-grouse) always enters into Arab poetry because it is essentially a desert bird, and here the comparison is good because
- 124 [FN#206] In the East cloth of frieze that mates with cloth of gold must expect this treatment. Fath Ali Shah's daughters always made their husbands enter the nuptial-bed by the foot end.[FN#207] This is always done and for two reasons; the first huma
- 125 Edit. (vii. 254) begins They tell that there arose full enmity between Ja'afar Barmecide and a Sahib of Misr" (Wazir or Governor of Egypt). Lane (ii. 429) quotes to this purpose amongst Arab; historians Fakhr al-Din. (De Sacy's Chrestomathi
- 126 "There is a pleasure sure in being mad Which none but madmen know."[FN#293] Lane (ii. 449) gives a tradition of the Prophet, "Whoso is in love, and acteth chastely, and concealeth (his pa.s.sion) and dieth, dieth a martyr." Sakar is No
- 127 [FN#338] Arab. "Musamirah"=chatting at night. Easterns are inordinately fond of the practice and the wild Arabs often sit up till dawn, talking over the affairs of the tribe, indeed a Shaykh is expected to do so. "Early to bed and early to
- 128 [FN#382] There is a pun in the last line, "Khalun (a mole) khallauni" (rid me), etc.[FN#383] Of old Fustat, afterwards part of Southern Cairo, a proverbially miserable quarter hence the saying, "They quoted Misr to Kahirah (Cairo), whereon
- 129 [FN#427] Arab. "Muwallad" (fem. "Muwalladah"); a rearling, a slave born in a Moslem land. The numbers may appear exaggerated, but even the petty King of Ashanti had, till the last war, 3333 "wives."[FN#428] The Under-prefect
- 130 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.VOL 5.THE EBONY HORSE.[FN#1]There was once in times of yore and ages long gone before, a great and puissant King, of the Kings of the Persians, Sabur by name, who was the richest of all the Kings in store of wea
- 131 From the camp, who th' afflicted heart shall tend?"And after thus reciting he wept till he wetted the hard dry ground; but anon without loss of time he rose and fared on again over waste and wold, till there came out upon him a lion, with a neck
- 132 When shows that slender form that doth the willow-branch outvie.If Rose herself would even with his cheek, I say of her *'Thou art not like it if to me my portion thou deny:'[FN#55]His honey-dew of lips is like the grateful water draught *Would
- 133 As soon as Uns al-Wujud had ended his verse,--And Shahrazad perceived the dawn of day and ceased saying her permitted say.When it was the Three Hundred and Seventy-seventh Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that as soon as Uns al-Wuju
- 134 His form a willow-wand, * His fruit, lures manifold; But willow lacketh power * Men's hearts to have and hold.I reared him from a babe * On cot of coaxing roll'd; And now I mourn for him * With woe in soul ensoul'd."Then, turning to th
- 135 Was faint with joys her love had made me drain: We toyed and joyed and on each other lay; *Then fell to wine and soft melodious strain: And for excess of joyance never knew, *How went the day and how it came again.Fair fall each lover, may he union win *A
- 136 And agree to swive all who dare slumber and sleep."While they were in this deboshed state behold, there came a knocking at the door; so they bade him who knocked enter, and behold, it was the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d.When they s
- 137 Nor can bear load of heart in secrecy?"Now when the girl took her tablet, she read the verses written thereon and understanding them, wept for ruth of him; then she wrote thereunder these two couplets, "An if we behold a lover love-fordone *Desi
- 138 He must smile and laugh and in pride must cry *?The promise of Night is effaced by Day.'"Last came Abu Nowas and recited the following couplets, "As love waxt longer less met we tway *And fell out, but ended the useless fray; One night in t
- 139 THE KAZI ABU YUSUF WITH HARUN AL-RAs.h.i.+D AND QUEEN ZUBAYDAH The Caliph Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d went up one noon-tide to his couch, to lie down; and mounting, found upon the bed-clothes s.e.m.e.n freshly emitted; whereat he was startled and troubled with so
- 140 MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL Ja'afar bin Musa al-Hadi[FN#133] once had a slave-girl, a lutist, called Al-Badr al-Kabir, than whom there was not in her time a fairer of face nor shapelier of shape nor a more elegant of manners nor a more accomp
- 141 "Who doth kindness to men shall be paid again; *Ne'er is kindness lost betwixt G.o.d and men."Then he offered to pay them, from the Treasury, the blood-wit for their father; but they refused, saying, "We forgave him only of our desire
- 142 then he went to the mosque and prayed with the congregation and returned to his work. He did the same upon the call to mid- afternoon prayer, and when I saw him fall to work again thereafterward, I said to him, ?O my friend, verily the hours of labour are
- 143 THE KING AND THE VIRTUOUS WIFE.A certain King once went forth in disguise, to look into the affairs of his lieges. Presently, he came to a great village which he entered unattended and being athirst, stopped at the door of a house and asked for water. The
- 144 'One, I wish him in belt a thousand horns, *Exceeding in mighty height Manaf.'[FN#185]Then I began to abuse him and reproach him with the foulness of his action and his lack of honour; and he was silent, never uttering a word. But, when I had fi
- 145 THE LOVERS OF THE BANU TAYY.Kasim, son of Adi, was wont to relate that a man of the Banu Tamim spake as follows: "I went out one day in search of an estray and, coming to the waters of the Banu Tayy, saw two companies of people near one another, and
- 146 "I walk, for fear of interview, the weakling's walk *Who sees two lion whelps the fount draw nigh: My cloak acts sword, my heart's perplex'd with fright, *Lest jealous hostile eyes th' approach descry: Till sudden hapt I on a deli
- 147 AL-AMIN SON OF AL-RAs.h.i.+D AND HIS UNCLE IBRAHIM BIN AL-MAHDI.Al-Amin,[FN#224] brother of al-Maamun, once entered the house of his uncle Ibrahim bin al-Mahdi, where he saw a slave girl playing upon the lute; and, she being one of the fairest of women, h
- 148 His brow had dazed all eyes no sight allowing: And whoso sojourns in a growthless land, *How shall he move from land fair growths a-growing?'And quoth another, 'My blamers say of me, 'He is consoled,' And lie! *No consolation comes to
- 149 "If we saw a lover who pains as he ought, *Wi' love we would grant him all favours he sought."She pleased him: so he bought her for seventy thousand dirhams and begat on her Obayd' Allah bin Mohammed, afterwards minister of Police.[FN#
- 150 and he replied, "At thy service, O my lord." Quoth the old King "Mine appointed hour is at hand: be thou careful of thy wife and her mother, and look thou fear Allah and honour thy parents; and bide in awe of the majesty of the Requiting Ki
- 151 When it was the Four Hundred and Forty-third Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the doctor's arguments were cut off, he rose to his feet and said, "Bear witness against me, O Commander of the Faithful, that this da
- 152 Quoth the astronomer, "Thou hast said well, and I, by Allah, thought only to try thee." Rejoined she, "Know that the almanack-makers have certain signs and tokens, referring to the planets and constellations relative to the coming in of the
- 153 THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD KING AND THE DEVOUT MAN.It is related, O auspicious King, that one of the olden monarchs was once minded to ride out in state with the Officers of his realm and the Grandees of his retinue and display to the folk the marv
- 154 'How many boons conceals the Deity, * Eluding human sight in mystery: How many graces come on heels of stresses, * And fill the burning heart with jubilee: How many a sorrow in the morn appears, * And turns at night-tide into gladdest gree: If things
- 155 It reached the ears of a certain pious man that there abode in such a town a blacksmith, who could put his hand into the fire and pull out the iron red-hot, without the flames doing him aught of hurt.[FN#482] So he set out for the town in question and ask
- 156 And they ceased not to be in all solace and delight of life, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies. And a tale is told by Sidi Ibrahim bin Al-Khawwas[FN#489](on whom be the mercy of Allah!) concerning himself and
- 157 At this, he was wroth and, repairing to the King, reported the conduct of his two trusty wights. The King summoned the twain forthwith, as he loved them for their fidelity and piety; and, sending for the woman, that he might hear from her own lips what sh
- 158 When it was the Four Hundred and Eighty-sixth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Serpent-queen had heard his story she said, "Nothing save good shall betide thee: but I would have thee, O Hasib, abide with me some t
- 159 The Story of Janshah.[FN#536]'Know, O my brother, that my sire was a King called Teghmus, who reigned over the land of Kabul and the Banu Shahlan, ten thousand warlike chiefs, each ruling over an hundred walled cities and a hundred citadels; and he w
- 160 She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that, "Janshah and the lady Shamsah abode three months with Shaykh Nasr, feasting and toying and making merry. And at the end of that time she said to Janshah, 'I wish to go with thee to thy mothe
- 161 She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that "King Kafid set off homewards in the sorriest of plights, whilst Janshah and his wife abode in all solace and delight of life, making the most of its joyance and happiness. All this recounted the
- 162 [FN#15] Arab. "s.h.i.+rk"=wors.h.i.+pping more than one G.o.d. A theological term here most appropriately used.[FN#16] The Bul. Edit. as usual abridges (vol. i. 534). The Prince lands on the palace-roof where he leaves his horse, and finding no
- 163 [FN#56] Arab. "lif" (not "fibres which grow at the top of the trunk," Lane ii. 577); but the fibre of the fronds worked like the cocoa-nut fibre which forms the now well-known Indian "coir."This "lif" is also called
- 164 [FN#102] As has been said, "Sahib" (preceding the name not following it as in India) is a Wazirial t.i.tle in mediaeval Islam.[FN#103] This parapet was rendered obligatory by Moses (Deut.xxii. 8) on account of the danger of leaving a flat roof w
- 165 [FN#147] Arab. "Arab al-Araba," as before noticed (vol. i. 12) the pure and genuine blood as opposed to the "Musta'aribah," the "Muta'arribah," the "Mosarabians" and other Araboids; the first springing fro
- 166 [FN#191] These easy deaths for love are a lieu common: See sundry of them in the Decameron (iv. 7, etc.); and, in the Heptameron (Nouv. Ixx.), the widow who lay down and died of love and sorrow that her pa.s.sion had become known. For the fainting of love
- 167 [FN#234] The secondary meaning is "Fa'il" = the active sodomite and "Mafa'ul" = the pa.s.sive, a catamite: the former is not an insulting word, the latter is a most injurious expression."Novimus et qui te!"[FN#235]
- 168 [FN#281] Lane (ii. 636) omits this tale, "as it would not only require a volume of commentary but be extremely tiresome to most readers." Quite true; but it is valuable to Oriental Students who are beginning their studies, as an excellent compen
- 169 [FN#324] I need hardly note that Mohammed borrowed his pilgrimage-practices from the pagan Arabs who, centuries before his day, danced around the Meccan Ka'abah. Nor can he be blamed for having perpetuated a Gentile rite, if indeed it be true that th
- 170 [FN#370] Koran xvii. 110, a pa.s.sage revealed because the Infidels, hearing Mohammed calling upon The Compa.s.sionate, imagined that Al-Rahman was other deity but Allah. The "names"have two grand divisions, Asma Jalali, the fiery or terrible at
- 171 [FN#413] Dictionaries render the word by "dragon, c.o.c.katrice."The Badawin apply it to a variety of serpents mostly large and all considered venomous.[FN#414] Arab. "Zarr wa 'urwah," 1it.=handle. The b.u.t.ton-hole, I have said,
- 172 "Kochlani" is evidently "Kohlani," the Kohl-eyed, because the skin round the orbits is dark as if powdered. This is the true blue blood; and the bluest of all is "Kohlani al-Ajuz" (of the old woman) a name thus accounted for.
- 173 [FN#496] The doggrel is phenomenal.[FN#497] He went in wonder and softened heart to see the miracle of saintly affection.[FN#498] In Sufistical parlance, the creature is the lover and the Creator the Beloved: worldly existence is Disunion, parting, severa
- 174 [FN#539] The Arabs call "s.h.i.+kk" (split man) and the Persians "Nimchahrah" (half-face) a kind of demon like a man divided longitudinally: this gruesome creature runs with amazing speed and is very cruel and dangerous. For the celebr
- 175 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.VOL 6.Sindbad The Seaman[FN#1] and Sindbad The Landsman.There lived in the city of Baghdad, during the reign of the Commander of the Faithful, Harun al-Ras.h.i.+d, a man named Sindbad the Hammal,[FN#2] one in po
- 176 The Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman.Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that I abode some time, after my return from my fifth voyage, in great solace and satisfaction and mirth and merriment, joyance and enjoyment; and I forgot what I h
- 177 She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the Caliph Abd al-Malik bin Marwan sat conversing with his Grandees concerning our lord Solomon, and these noted what Allah had bestowed upon him of lords.h.i.+p and dominion, quoth the Commander
- 178 When it was the Five Hundred and Seventy-third Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Emir Musa pa.s.sed on to the third tablet, whereon was written, "O son of Adam, the things of this world thou lovest and prizest and the h
- 179 The King and his Wazir's Wife.[FN#160]There was once a King of the Kings, a potent man and a proud, who was devoted to the love of women and one day being in the privacy of his palace, he espied a beautiful woman on the terraceroof of her house and c
- 180 A man once gave his wife a dirham to buy rice; so she took it and went to the rice-seller, who gave her the rice and began to jest with her and ogle her, for she was dowered with beauty and loveliness, saying, "Rice is not good but with sugar which i
- 181 When it was the Five Hundred and Ninety-first Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King heard this story he turned from slaying his son; but, on the sixth day, the favourite came in to him hending a naked knife in hand, an
- 182 The Two Pigeons.[FN#219]A pair of pigeons once stored up wheat and barley in their nest during the winter, and when the summer came, the grain shrivelled and became less; so the male pigeon said to his wife, "Thou hast eaten of this grain." Repl
- 183 quoth the cobbler, and quoth the Shaykh, "He has but to say to thee, 'The Sultan's enemies are put to the rout; his foes are waxed weak and his children and helpers are multiplied. Art thou content or no?' If thou say, 'I am conte
- 184 She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Maghribi said to Judar, "Go on to the fourth door and knock and it shall be opened to thee, when there will come forth to thee a lion huge of bulk which will rush upon thee, opening his m
- 185 "I am he who is known on the day of fight, * And the Jinn of earth at my shade take fright: And a sword have I when my right hand wields, * Death hastens from left on mankind to alight; I have eke a lance and who look thereon * See a crescent head of
- 186 End of Vol 6.Arabian Nights, Volume 6 Footnotes [FN#1] Lane (vol. iii. 1) calls our old friend "Es-Sindibad of the Sea," and Benfey derives the name from the Sanskrit "Siddhapati"=lord of sages. The etymology (in Heb. Sandabar and in G
- 187 Animal. xvi. 17), by Strabo (Lib. xv.), by Pliny (ix. 10) and Diodorus Siculus (iv. 1) who had heard of a tribe of Chelonophagi. aelian makes them 16 cubits long near Taprobane and serving as house-roofs; and others turn the sh.e.l.l into boats and coracl
- 188 [FN#79] These underground rivers (which Dr. Livingstone derided) are familiar to every geographer from Spenser's "Mole" to the Poika of Adelberg and the Timavo near Trieste. Hence "Peter Wilkins" borrowed his cavern which let him
- 189 [FN#123] The Arabs have no word for million; so Messer Marco Miglione could not have learned it from them. On the other hand the Hindus have more quadrillions than modern Europe.[FN#124] This formula, according to Moslems, would begin with the beginning &
- 190 [FN#167] Taken from the life of the Egyptian Mameluke Sultan (No.viii, regn. A.H, 825= A.D. 1421) who would not suffer his subjects to prostrate themselves or kiss the ground before him.See D'Herbelot for details.[FN#168] This nauseous Joe Miller has
- 191 [FN#211] This witty tale, ending somewhat grossly here, has over-wandered the world. First we find it in the Katha (S. S.) where Upakosha, the merry wife of Vararuchi, disrobes her suitors, a family priest, a commander of the guard and the prince's t
- 192 [FN#255] The usual formula when telling an improbable tale. But here it is hardly called for: the same story is told (on weak authority) of the Alewife, the Three Graziers and Attorney-General Nay (temp. James II. 1577-1634) when five years old (Journ. As
- 193 Khaliyah is properly a hive of bees with a honey-comb in the hollow of a tree-trunk, opposed to Kawwarah, hive made of clay or earth (Al-Hariri; a.s.s. of Tiflis). There are many other terms, for Arabs are curious about honey. Pilgrimage iii. 110.[FN#300]
- 194 [FN#341] I have described (Pilgrimage i. 370) the grisly spot which a Badawi will dignify by the name of Wady al-Ward=Vale of Roses.[FN#342] Koran xiii. 3, "Of every fruit two different kinds "i.e. large and small, black and white, sweet and sou
- 195 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.VOL 7.When it was the Six Hundred and Thirty-seventh Night, Shahrazad continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Sa'adan having broken into the palace of King Jamak and pounded to pieces those t
- 196 When Ra'ad Shah saw how evilly Ajib fared with his brother, he called for his charger and donning his harness and habergeon, mounted and dashed out a field. As soon as he drew near King Gharib, he cried out at him, saying, "O basest of Arabs and
- 197 When it was the Six Hundred and Seventy-ninth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Murad Shah son of Fakhr Taj thus bespake his mother, she rejoiced in his speech. Now he used to go a-riding with two hundred Marids till he gre
- 198 Meanwhile Ikrimah returned to his own house and found that his wife had missed him and asked for him, and when they told her of his riding forth, she mis...o...b..ed of him, and said to him, "Verily the Wali of Al-Jazirah rideth not abroad after such
- 199 'My soul and my folk I engage for the youth * Musk-scented I see in my bed every night!'Quoth I, 'An she be fair as her verse hath grace, the thing is complete in every case.' Then I came down from my bench[FN#115]and was about to go a
- 200 THE BADAWI AND HIS WIFE.[FN#141]Caliph Mu'awiyah was sitting one day in his palace[FN#142] at Damascus, in a room whose windows were open on all four sides, that the breeze might enter from every quarter. Now it was a day of excessive heat, with no b