The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set by Diyāb, Ḥannā
The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set by Diyāb, Ḥannā

The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set

The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account...
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Author: Ḥannā Diyāb
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Language: English
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The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set by Diyāb, Ḥannā

The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set

$179.33
The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set by Diyāb, Ḥannā

The Book of Travels: Two-Volume Set

$179.33
Author: Ḥannā Diyāb
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

The adventures of the man who created Aladdin

The Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, which forever linked him to one of the most popular pieces of world literature, the Thousand and One Nights.

Diyāb, a Maronite Christian, served as a guide and interpreter for the French naturalist and antiquarian Paul Lucas. Between 1706 and 1716, Diyāb and Lucas traveled through Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, Tripolitania, Tunis, Italy, and France. In Paris, Ḥannā Diyāb met Antoine Galland, who added to his wildly popular translation of the Thousand and One Nights several tales related by Diyāb, including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." When Lucas failed to make good on his promise of a position for Diyāb at Louis XIV's Royal Library, Diyāb returned to Aleppo. In his old age, he wrote this engaging account of his youthful adventures, from capture by pirates in the Mediterranean to quack medicine and near-death experiences.

Translated into English for the first time, The Book of Travels introduces readers to the young Syrian responsible for some of the most beloved stories from the Thousand and One Nights.

A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Author: Ḥannā Diyāb
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 720
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.09lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 2.10d
ISBN: 9781479810949

About the Author

Ḥannā Diyāb (Author)
Ḥannā Diyāb (b. ca. 1687) was a Syrian traveler originally from Aleppo. He is best known for his contributions to Antoine Galland's translation of the Thousand and One Nights.

Johannes Stephan (Editor)
Johannes Stephan is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project Kalīlah and Dimnah--AnonymClassic at the Freie Universität Berlin. He studied Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in Halle an der Saale, Damascus, and Bern.

Yasmine Seale (Foreword by)
Yasmine Seale translates from Arabic and French. Her essays on books and art have appeared in Harper's, The Nation, TLS, and elsewhere. She is the translator of The Annotated Arabian Nights: Tales from 1001 Nights and Aladdin: A New Translation.

Elias Muhanna (Translator)
Elias Muhanna is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. He is the author of The World in a Book: al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition and translator of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī's fourteenth-century Arabic compendium The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, which was chosen as a "Best Book of 2016" by NPR and The Guardian, and editor of The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies.


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