Arabian Nights and Days

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Arabian Nights and Days
Author(s) Naguib Mahfouz
Original title ليالي ألف ليلة
Translator Denys Johnson-Davies
Country Egypt
Language Arabic
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Doubleday
Published in English 1995
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 227 pp (first Eng. edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-385-46888-1 (first Eng. edition, hardback)

Arabian Nights and Days is a novel by Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel serves as a sequel and companion piece for One Thousand and One Nights and includes many of the same characters that appeared in the original work such as Shahryar, Scheherazade, and Aladdin.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Anders Hallengren. Nobel laureates in search of identity and integrity: voices of different cultures. ISBN 9812560386.