A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Now Entituled the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 05 (of 17)
Transcriber's Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
“TO THE PURE ALL THINGS ARE PURE.”
(Puris omnia pura)
— Arab Proverb.
“Niuna corrotta mente intese mai sanamente parole.”
—“ Decameron ”— conclusion .
“Erubuit, posuitque meum Lucretia librum
Sed coram Bruto. Brute! recede, leget.”
— Martial.
“Mieulx est de ris que de larmes escripre,
Pour ce que rire est le propre des hommes.”
Unknown
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To DOCTOR GEORGE BIRD.
CONTENTS OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.
ABDALLAH BIN MA’AMAR WITH THE MAN OF BASSORAH AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
WAZIR OF AL-YAMAN AND HIS YOUNG BROTHER.
THE LOVES OF THE BOY AND GIRL AT SCHOOL.
AL-MUTALAMMIS AND HIS WIFE UMAYMAH.
THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID AND QUEEN ZUBAYDAH IN THE BATH.
HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE THREE POETS.
MUS’AB BIN AL-ZUBAYR AND AYISHAH DAUGHTER OF TALHAH.
ABU AL-ASWAD AND HIS SLAVE-GIRL.
HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE TWO SLAVE-GIRLS.
THE CALIPH HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE THREE SLAVE-GIRLS.
THE MILLER AND HIS WIFE.
THE SIMPLETON AND THE SHARPER.
THE KAZI ABU YUSUF WITH HARUN AL-RASHID AND QUEEN ZUBAYDAH.
KHUSRAU AND SHIRIN AND THE FISHERMAN.
YAHYA BIN KHALID THE BARMECIDE AND THE POOR MAN.
MOHAMMED AL-AMIN AND THE SLAVE-GIRL.
THE SONS OF YAHYA BIN KHALID AND SA’ID BIN SALIM AL-BAHILI.
THE WOMAN’S TRICK AGAINST HER HUSBAND.
JA’AFAR THE BARMECIDE AND THE OLD BADAWI.
THE CALIPH OMAR BIN AL-KHATTAB AND THE YOUNG BADAWI.
THE THIEF AND THE MERCHANT.
MASRUR THE EUNUCH AND IBN AL-KARIBI.
THE DEVOTEE PRINCE.
THE UNWISE SCHOOLMASTER WHO FELL IN LOVE BY REPORT.
ILLITERATE WHO SET UP FOR A SCHOOLMASTER.
THE KING AND THE VIRTUOUS WIFE.
ADI BIN ZAYD AND THE PRINCESS HIND.
DI’IBIL AL-KHUZA’I WITH THE LADY AND MUSLIM BIN AL-WALID.
ISAAC OF MOSUL AND THE MERCHANT.
THE THREE UNFORTUNATE LOVERS.
HOW ABU HASAN BRAKE WIND.
THE LOVERS OF THE BANU TAYY.
THE MAD LOVER.
THE PRIOR WHO BECAME A MOSLEM.
THE LOVES OF ABU ISA AND KURRAT AL-AYN.
AL AMIN SON OF AL-RASHID AND HIS UNCLE IBRAHIM BIN AL-MAHDI.
AL FATH BIN KHAKAN AND THE CALIPH AL-MUTAWAKKIL.
THE MAN’S DISPUTE WITH THE LEARNED WOMAN CONCERNING THE RELATIVE EXCELLENCE OF MALE AND FEMALE.
ABU SUWAYD AND THE PRETTY OLD WOMAN.
THE EMIR ALI BIN TAHIR AND THE GIRL MUUNIS.
THE WOMAN WHO HAD A BOY AND THE OTHER WHO HAD A MAN TO LOVER.
ALI THE CAIRENE AND THE HAUNTED HOUSE IN BAGHDAD.
THE PILGRIM MAN AND THE OLD WOMAN.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD KING AND THE DEVOUT MAN.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE RICH KING.
THE ANGEL OF DEATH AND THE KING OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
THE JEWISH KAZI AND HIS PIOUS WIFE.
THE SHIPWRECKED WOMAN AND HER CHILD.
THE PIOUS BLACK SLAVE.
THE DEVOUT TRAY-MAKER AND HIS WIFE.
AL-HAJJAJ AND THE PIOUS MAN.
THE BLACKSMITH WHO COULD HANDLE FIRE WITHOUT HURT.
THE DEVOTEE TO WHOM ALLAH GAVE A CLOUD FOR SERVICE AND THE DEVOUT KING.
THE MOSLEM CHAMPION AND THE CHRISTIAN DAMSEL.
THE CHRISTIAN KING’S DAUGHTER AND THE MOSLEM.
THE PROPHET AND THE JUSTICE OF PROVIDENCE.
THE FERRYMAN OF THE NILE AND THE HERMIT.
THE ISLAND KING AND THE PIOUS ISRAELITE.
INDEX.
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