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Arabian Nights
by Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi

ISBN 0393313670 (0-393-31367-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based. [via]
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The Arabian Nights
by Rene Bull

ISBN 0517619342 (0-517-61934-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub

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Arabian Nights
by Earle Goodenow

ISBN 044806006X (0-448-06006-X)
Hardcover, Grosset & Dunlap

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A selection of thirteen tales told by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights which enchanted the cruel sultan so much that he gave up executing his daily wives.
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Arabian Nights
by H. W. Dulcken

ISBN 089009800X (0-89009-800-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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In this superbly illustrated volume you will find dozens of wonderful stories of genies and jinns (those fantastic spirits that, according to Muslim folklore, inhabit the earth in various forms and exercise supernatural power), of magic carpets, Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, and the beautiful Scheherazade. There are classics such as 'Sinbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin' and 'The Seven Viziers', traditional stories that have given boundless pleasure down through the ages, which you too can now experience.
The wondrous illustrations are by the master Victorian artist engraver Thomas Dalziel, whose unique talent is displayed at its very best here.
This book to treasure is a rich mine of adventure to fire the imagination, a treasury of one thousand and one nights that you will want to return to again and again.
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Arabian Nights
by Jack Zipes

ISBN 0451525426 (0-451-52542-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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The Arabian Nights
by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora A. Smith, Maxfield Parrish

ISBN 0684195895 (0-684-19589-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Atheneum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, and The Stories of O. Henry, to be illustrated by some of the finest artists of our generation, including Wendell Minor, Ed Young, and Trina Schart Hyman. [via]
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Arabian Nights
by Kathryn Wesley, Kensington Publishing Corporation Staff

ISBN 1575665816 (1-57566-581-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation

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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Richard Francis Burton, A. S. Byatt

ISBN 0375756752 (0-375-75675-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Adapted from Sir Richard F. Burton's lavish unexpurgated translation, this volume illuminates the sensual mystery and lushness of the original Arabic tales. It includes a wide variety of tales--from magic fairy tales to torrid erotic tales--that reveal a great deal about what life was like in the Middle East during the Medieval period.
* The companion volume to the popular Signet Classic edition of Arabian Nights (8/91), also edited by Jack Zipes
* Jack Zipes is the author of several books of fairy tales and is the editor of the Signet Classic edition of The Complete Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde (5/96)
* These volumes offer the uncensored, erotic versions of the tales, not the rewritten fairy tales for children [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Jack David Zipes, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 061321126X (0-613-21126-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.
The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.
This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, " "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman, " and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by Marc Chagall, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 3791308424 (3-7913-0842-4)
Hardcover, Prestel Pub

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Arabian Nights' Entertainments
by Robert L. MacK

ISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities of his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his realm and to a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which she nightly postpones the Sultan's murderous intent have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of stories before or since. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance in Arabian Nights' Entertainments. This edition is the only one to offer the complete text of the earliest English translation, and also provides full notes and plot summaries, especially important in a such a sprawling work of great complexity. [via]
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Or, The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
by Bennett Alfred Cerf, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 0679602356 (0-679-60235-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Full of mischief and valor, ribaldry and romance, The Arabian Nights is a work that has enthralled readers for centuries. The text presented here is that of the 1932 Modern Library edition for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the "most famous and representative" of the stories from the multivolume translation of Richard F. Burton.

The origins of The Arabian Nights are obscure. About a thousand years ago a vast number of stories in Arabic from various countries began to be brought together; only much later was the collection called The Arabian Nights or the Thousand and One Nights. All the stories are told by Shahrazad (Scheherazade), who entertains her husband, King Shahryar, whose custom it was to execute his wives after a single night. Shahrazad begins a story each night but withholds the ending until the following night, thus postponing her execution.

This selection includes many of the stories that are universally known though seldom read in this authentic form:
"Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." These, and the tales that accompany them, make delightful reading, demonstrating, as the Modern Library noted in 1932, that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken. [via]
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Best Selections from the Arabian Nights Entertainments
by Edward William Lane, Edward Stanley Poole, William Harvey

ISBN 0805502440 (0-8055-0244-0)
Hardcover, Hart Pub Co

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The Book of The Thousand Nights And One Night
by Richard Francis Burton, Leon Carre

ISBN 2843237254 (2-84323-725-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services

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In the late 1920s, the art publisher H. Piazza produced a twelve-volume version of The 1001 Nights that was one of the most beautiful ever made. It included splendid illustrations by Mohammed Racim and wonderful miniatures by painter Leon Carre. Today, Assouline is publishing an abridged version of this masterpiece, which includes the most famous and most enchanting of the tales--from the story of King Shahryar, to Sinbad the sailor, to Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Aladdin and the magic lamp--all told by the beautiful and sensual Shahrazad. This wonderful book is one of the classics that will stand next to the most handsome books in your library. For The 1001 Nights is a cultural testimony of the past, the source of myths and beliefs of the East. A collection of extraordinary stories from India and Persia passed down orally and told at night in public squares, this unique work is on a par with Homer's Odyssey. [via]
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Come, Fill the Cup: The Rubaiyat or Omar Khayyam
by Edward Fitzgerald, A. W. Ku

ISBN 0965574318 (0-9655743-1-8)
Softcover, Tortellini Books

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Edward FitzGerald's great free translation of the quatrains by the Persian poet, Omar Khayyám, contains many of the most quoted and beloved lines of English poetry. 2009 will mark the 150th anniversary of this passionate and ironic poem, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Come, Fill the Cup ~ The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám contains the 1st and 4th editions of the poem, commentary and notes by Fitzgerald, and remarks by notable critics of his era. Included also are variations of lines from the 2nd and 3rd editions. [via]
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The Conference of the Birds
by Farid-Ud-Din Attar, Rustom Pestonji Masani, Andrew Harvey

ISBN 1578632463 (1-57863-246-3)
Softcover, Red Wheel/Weiser

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Like "Rumi" and "Hafiz", the name "Attar" conjures up images of passionate attraction to the divine. A Persian Sufi of the 12th century, Attar's masterpiece is the Conference of the Birds, an epic allegory of the seeker's journey to God. When all the birds of the world convene and determine that they lack a king, one bird stands forth and offers to lead them to a great and mighty monarch. Initially excited, each bird falters in turn, whereupon their leader admonishes them with well-targeted parables. These pithy tales are the delight of this four-and-a-half thousand line poem, translated deftly into rhymed couplets. What is your excuse for not seeking God--your life is fine already, you prefer material pleasure, you aren't holy enough, you have pride, lack courage or are burdened with responsibility? Attar has an answer to encourage you on the path. And when you get to the promised land, who is the king that you will find? It may not be who you would expect, but you must make the journey to see. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Conference of the Birds, a Sufi Allegory: Being an Abridged Version of Farid-Ud-Din Attar's Mantiq-Ut-Tayr
by Rustom Pestonji Masani, Farid Al-Din Attar

ISBN 8120617223 (81-206-1722-3)
Hardcover, Asian Educational Services

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Like Rumi and Hafiz, the name Attar conjures up images of passionate attraction to the divine. Attar was a Persian Sufi of the 12th century and his masterpiece is The Conference of the Birds, an epic allegory of the seeker's journey to God. When all the birds of the world convene and determine that they lack a king, one bird steps forward and offers to lead them to a great and mighty monarch. Initially excited, each bird falters in turn, whereupon the leader admonishes them with well-targeted parables. These pithy tales are the delight of this 4,500-line poem, translated deftly into rhymed couplets. What is your excuse for not seeking God? Your life is fine already? You prefer material pleasure? You are holy enough? You have pride, lack courage, or are burdened with responsibility? Attar has an answer to encourage you on the path to the promised land. And when you get there, the king may not be what you'd expect, but you must make the journey to see. --Brian Bruya [via]
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English Persian Dictionary
by S. Haim

ISBN 0781800560 (0-7818-0056-0)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books

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The Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks, Jalal Al-Din Rumi, John Moyne

ISBN 0062509594 (0-06-250959-4)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco

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No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the images, tone, and spiritual message of the originals. Barks's introductions to each of the 27 sections (described as "playful palimpsests spread over Rumi's imagination," and "meant to confuse scholars who would divide Rumi's poetry into the accepted categories") are themselves wonderful achievements of a poetic imagination; searching explanations of unfamiliar concepts and funny stories provide colorful background and frame the selections as no dry historical exegesis could.
While Barks's stamp on this collection is clear, it in no way interferes with the poems themselves; Rumi's voice leaps off these pages with an ecstatic energy that leaves readers breathless. There are poems of love, rage, sadness, pleading, and longing; passionate outbursts about the torture of longing for his beloved and the sweet pleasure that comes from their union; amusing stories of sexual exploits or human weakness; and quiet truths about the beauty and variety of human emotion. More than anything, Rumi makes plain the unbridled joy that comes from living life fully, urging us always to put aside our fears and take the risk to do so. As he says: "The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings." --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Farsi Persian English Dictionary
by Sulayman Hayyim

ISBN 0781800552 (0-7818-0055-2)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books

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Favorite Tales from the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
by Richard F. Burton

ISBN 0486419177 (0-486-41917-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Six enchanting tales, told by an Arabian princess to delay her execution, teem with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses. Includes "Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman;" "Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp;" "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;" "The Fisherman and the Jinni;" "Judar and His Brethren;" and "Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad."
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The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master
by Hafiz, Daniel Ladinsky

ISBN 0140195815 (0-14-019581-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafiz's ecstasy. Never forced or awkward, Ladinsky's Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your chest, naming God in a hundred metaphors.
I once asked a bird,
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"
She responded,
"Love lifts
Me."
Like Fitzgerald's version of Khayyam's Rubaiyat, the language of The Gift strikes a contemporary chord, resonating in the reader's mind and then in the heart. Ladinsky's language is plain, fresh, playful--dancing with an expert cadence that invites and surprises. If it is true, as Hafiz says, that a poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, reading Ladinsky's Hafiz is like gulping down the sun. --Brian Bruya [via]
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Great Books of the Western World
by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Herodotus: The Persian War
by W. Shepherd

ISBN 0521281946 (0-521-28194-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Selections from Herodotus' History which follow the events of the great war between the Greeks and the Persians. The translated extracts include Herodotus' descriptions of the preparations for war and of the great land- and sea-battles which took place. Linking commentaries explain Greek and Persian strategies and battle manoeuvres. Background information on the ships and on the soldiers fighting in the war is also given. [via]
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The Histories
by Herodotus

ISBN 1593081022 (1-59308-102-2)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World. [via]
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Histories
by Hugh Bowden, George Rawlinson

ISBN 0460871706 (0-460-87170-6)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.

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An Introduction to Persian
by W. M. Thackston

ISBN 0936347295 (0-936347-29-5)
Softcover, Ibex Pub

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Las Mil Y Una Noches
by Not Available

ISBN 9875504211 (987-550-421-1)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.

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The Little Book of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Edward Fitzgerald, Omar Khayyam

ISBN 1852307188 (1-85230-718-8)
Hardcover, Thorsons Element

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Lonely Planet Farsi (Persian) Phrasebook
by Yavar Dehghani

ISBN 0864425813 (0-86442-581-3)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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We'll hike up the masir e kuh and drop in at the local to sip aromatic chayi. Then, under the cool night skies and the full muh above, we'll take it in turns to recite she'r, and discuss the hasti: bale, amma...bale, hatman! 'yes, but...yes, sure!' From mystics to museums, barbers to bazaars, and art to archaeology, jump into the event with this phrasebook...

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Clear pronunciation guide for the scrupulous speaker.
Action-packed vocabulary for outdoor devotees.
Classical Persian poetry for that inspirational moment.
Savouries and sweets to summon up a feast.
Language tips for getting the perfect bargain.
Comprehensive two-way dictionary.
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Modern Persian
by John MacE

ISBN 0844238155 (0-8442-3815-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland

ISBN 0307279480 (0-307-27948-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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History. Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first "clash of empires" between East and West. As he did in the critically praised Rubicon, he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no other popular history that takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars, and no other classical historian, academic or popular, who combines scholarly rigor with novelistic depth and a worldly irony in quite the fashion that Tom Holland does. [via]
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Persian Grammar
by Ann K. Lambton

ISBN 0521091241 (0-521-09124-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr

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Comprehensive, accurate, complete and scholarly, and contains sufficient reading matter to enable the student to handle the language for himself. [via]
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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three Translations of the Rubaiyat
by Omar Khayyam, Herbert Cole, Edward Fitzgerald, Richard Le Gallienne

ISBN 0974566713 (0-9745667-1-3)
Softcover, Bardic Pr

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Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyám needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy's elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne's sharp and poetic version. For the first time the reader can appreciate the range of Omar Khayyám and his interpreters in a single volume. [via]
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The Rose Garden: Gulistan
by Saadi, Omar Ali Shah

ISBN 2909347060 (2-909347-06-0)
Softcover, Tractus Books

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Rose Garden of Sheikh Muslihu'D-Din Sadi of Shiraz
by Sadi

ISBN 0863040691 (0-86304-069-1)
Softcover, Ishk Book Service

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Sadis Gulistan, or The Rose Garden, is both one of the best known of the Sufi classics and a major work of Persian literature. From its creation in the first half of the 13th century, this work has attained a popularity in the East which is unsurpassed. To this day it is quoted by schoolchildren and scholars alike. [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Omar Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald

ISBN 1406811564 (1-4068-1156-4)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower than once has blown for ever dies. -XXVI Though it's difficult to imagine, these 12th-century stanzas-oft quoted and frequently looked to for inspiration by those seeking to live life to the fullest-did not come to the public's attention until Edward FitzGerald published them in English in 1859... and even then they were ignored until the painter Dante Rossetti discovered a remaindered copy two years later and excitedly spread news of it around his intellectual and artistic circles. Not a direct translation, these liberal interpretations make Khayyám's verse accessible to readers in the English language. Several editions of FitzGerald's work are included in this volume, allowing the reader multiple approaches to their wisdom and beauty. Persian astronomer and poet OMAR KHAYYÁM (1048-1131) also authored works on music and mathematics. British poet and translator EDWARD FITZGERALD (1809-1883) also wrote Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1852) and translated from the Spanish Six Dramas of Pedro Caulderon (1853). [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Edward Fitzgerald, Christopher Decker

ISBN 0813916895 (0-8139-1689-5)
Hardcover, University Press of Virginia

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One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (10481122), Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. The 5th edition incorporates FitzGerald's handwritten changes in the 4th edition, and is traditionally printed with the 1st edition. Notes explaining Persian names and unfamiliar terms.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by John Heath-Stubbs, Peter Avery, Omar Khayyam

ISBN 0713911344 (0-7139-1134-4)
Hardcover, A. Lane

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Peter Avery, Omar Khayyam, John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs, Edward Fitzgerald

ISBN 0140059547 (0-14-005954-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day. This translation by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs is beautifully and lavishly illustrated in colour with numerous examples of Persian miniature painting. It also contains a valuable introduction and several appendices, including an essay on Persian painting. [via]
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Richard Le Gallienne, Omar Khayyam

ISBN 0841457565 (0-8414-5756-5)
Hardcover, Folcroft Library Editions

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
by Shoshana Brickman

ISBN 9654942151 (965-494-215-1)
Softcover, Astrolog Pub House

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899
by Edward Fitzgerald

ISBN 0766176673 (0-7661-7667-3)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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This volume contains an English rendering in quatrains of the first, second and fifth editions of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, together with notes indicating the minor variants found in the third and fourth editions. [via]
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1899
by Gilbert James, Edward Fitzgerald, James Gilbert

ISBN 1594621586 (1-59462-158-6)
Softcover, Standard Pubns Inc

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Edward Fitzgerald, whom the world has already learned, in spite of his own efforts to remain wathin the shadow of anonymity, to look upon as one of the rarest poets of the century, was born at Bredfield, in Suffolk, on the 31st of March, 1809. He was the third son of John Purcell, of Kilkenny, in Ireland, who, marrying Miss Mary Frances Fitzgerald, daughter of John Fitzgerald, of Williamstown, County Waterford, added that distinguished name to his own patronymic; and the future Omar was thus doubly of Irish extraction. (Both the families of Purcell and Fitzgerald claim descent from Norman warriors of the eleventh century.) This circumstance is thought to have had some influence in attracting him to the study of Persian poetry Iran and Erin being almost convertible terms in the early days of modern ethnology. [via]
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Other Persian Poems
by Omar Khayyam, Arberry

ISBN 0460019961 (0-460-01996-1)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Bird Parliament
by Tony Briggs

ISBN 0460879545 (0-460-87954-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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In Edward Fitzgerald's much-loved translation, "The Rubaiyat", the best selling poem of all time, with Attar's charming "The Bird Parliament". [via]
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Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam
by Omar Khayyam, Robert Graves, Omar Ali Shah

ISBN 0140034080 (0-14-003408-0)
Hardcover, Penguin

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Shahnameh: The Persian Book Of Kings
by Dick Davis, Firdawsi, Azar Nafisi

ISBN 0670034851 (0-670-03485-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Among the great works of world literature, perhaps one of the least familiar to English readers is the Shahnameh: ThePersian Book of Kings, the national epic of Persia. This prodigious narrative, composed by the poet Ferdowsi between the years 980 and 1010, tells the story of pre- Islamic Iran, beginning in the mythic time of Creation and continuing forward to the Arab invasion in the seventh century.
As a window on the world, Shahnameh belongs in the company of such literary masterpieces as Dantes Divine Comedy, the plays of Shakespeare, the epics of Homer classics whose reach and range bring whole cultures into view. In its pages are unforgettable moments of national triumph and failure, human courage and cruelty, blissful love and bitter grief.
In tracing the roots of Iran, Shahnameh initially draws on the depths of legend and then carries its story into historical times, when ancient Persia was swept into an expanding Islamic empire. Now Dick Davis, the greatest modern translator of Persian poetry, has revisited that poem, turning the finest stories of Ferdowsis original into an elegant combination of prose and verse. For the first time in English, in the most complete form possible, readers can experience Shahnameh in the same way that Iranian storytellers have lovingly conveyed it in Persian for the past thousand years. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights

ISBN 0721417590 (0-7214-1759-0)
Hardcover, Ladybird Books Ltd

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The fables and legends of "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", taken from the "Arabian Nights". In these two tales filled with mystery, intrigue and excitement, Aladdin and Ali Baba each make magical discoveries. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights
by C. Lang, Andrew Lang

ISBN 1853261149 (1-85326-114-9)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd

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The beautiful Scheherazade's royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night. This is the background to the Arabian Nights. In this selection made by that master of folklore and fairy-tale Andrew Lang, the reader meets Aladdin with his wonderful lamp, the Enchanted Horse, the Princess Badoura, Sinbad the Sailor, and the great Caliph of Bagdad, Haroun-al-Raschid. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights
by Edmund Dulac, C. Lang

ISBN 0895773740 (0-89577-374-0)
Hardcover, Reader's Digest Association

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Beautiful princesses, genies who emerge from bottles, and talking birds in 26 magical tales: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Sindbad the Sailor," "Noureddin and the Fair Persian," "Merchant of Bagdad," and more. 66 illustrations. [via]
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Tales from the Arabian Nights Selected from the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night
by Richard Burton

ISBN 0671808036 (0-671-80803-6)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co

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Tales from the Arabian Nights: Selected from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
by David Shumaker, Richard Francis Burton

ISBN 0517261847 (0-517-26184-7)
Hardcover, Avenel Books

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This retelling of the magnificent tales told by Scheherazade to the King of India in order to save her life includes such magical classics as ""Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,"" ""Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp,"" and many other favorites. [via]
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Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
by N. J. Dawood

ISBN 0140442898 (0-14-044289-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The tales told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical "Young Woman and her Five Lovers" and the social criticism of "The Tale of the Hunchback", the stories depict a fabulous world of all-powerful sorcerers, jinns imprisoned in bottles and enchanting princesses. But despite their imaginative extravagance, the Tales are anchored to everyday life by their realism, providing a full and intimate record of medieval Islam. [via]
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The Thousand Nights and One Night
by E. Powys Mathers, Mardrus

ISBN 0710208693 (0-7102-0869-3)
Hardcover, Marboro Books

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Historias
by Not Available

ISBN 8446002833 (84-460-0283-3)
Softcover, Akal Ediciones Sa

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Los Nueve Libros De La Historia
by Herodotus

ISBN 8426421997 (84-264-2199-7)
Hardcover, Lumen

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Las Rubaiyyat
by Omar Kayyam

ISBN 847640932X (84-7640-932-X)
Softcover, Edaf Antillas

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Desde la primera aparición en el Occidente de Las Rubaiyat en 1859, estas cuartetas, escritas entre los siglos XI y XII, han conocido un éxito y una difusión poco habituales para obras de tal naturaleza. Aquí queda para el lector esta joya de la literatura universal tomada de la versión francesa de Franz Toussaint en atención a sus valores de claridad , sencillez y elegancia. [via]
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Simplified Grammar of Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani
by Edward Henry Palmer

ISBN 0486424758 (0-486-42475-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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With just a few hours of diligent study, this concise and practical book will enable students to analyze sentences in all 3 languages. Alphabets, numerals, verb parts, and tenses are given for each language, along with English equivalents, pronunciations, and explanations for forming compound words. Technical terms, arbitrary rules, and old classifications into declensions and conjugations are excluded.
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