One Thousand and One Nights

A work that extends far beyond the Arabic-speaking world is newly rediscovered. The colorful world of bazaars, flying carpets, genies and magic lamps, palaces, gardens, and exotic delicacies is inextricably linked to the stories from One Thousand and One Nights. However, this romantically exotic world that we have known so far was largely invented by Europeans. With this audiobook edition, the original Arabic version is now available. It offers a completely new and fresh perspective on the nightly tales of Scheherazade. There is hardly a book better suited for reading aloud and thus as an audiobook than the 282 nights recounted in the original version of One Thousand and One Nights. They conclude, like the oldest surviving manuscript that underlies the translation, in the middle of the 282nd night, far to the east, on an island near China.