Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern and to save her own life, the vizier's daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches and wonder.
Malcolm Lyons, sometime Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at
the University of Cambridge and a life Fellow of Pembroke College,
Cambridge, is a specialist in the field of classical Arabic
literature.His published works include the biography Saladin, the
Politics of the Holy War, The Arabian Epic, Identification and
Identity in Classical Arabic Poetry and many articles on Arabic
literature.
Ursula Lyons, formerly an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of
Oriental Studies at Cambridge University and, since 1976, an
Emeritus Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, specialises
in modern Arabic literature.
Robert Irwin is the author of For Lust of Knowing- The Orientalists
and Their Enemies, The Middle East in the Middle Ages, The Arabian
Nights- A Companion and numerous other specialised studies of
Middle Eastern politics, art and mysticism. His novels include The
Limits of Vision, The Arabian Nightmare, The Mysteries of Algiers
and Satan Wants Me.
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