num_pages: 227
description: The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.
language: English
title: Arabian Nights and Days
titlecomplete: Arabian Nights and Days
characters: Abdullah al-Balkhi, Shahrazad, Shahryar, Aladdin, Fadil Sanaan, Sinbad
genres: Classics, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Short Stories, Nobel Prize, Novels, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 8192
places: Iraq, Baghdad
awards: name: Laylā min layali alf layla
publisher: American University in Cairo Press