accompanied his uncle, Shams al-Din, to the Divan, and after saluting the Sultan and doing him reve...
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THE CITY OF MANY-COLUMNED IRAM AND ABDULLAH SON OF ABI KILABAH IT is related that Abdullah bin Abi ...
saw a number of eunuchs with staves in their hands, followed by nigh thirty women slaves, and among...
Allah, he is a pretty fellow!" and at the cry Badr al-Din awoke and found himself lying at a city g...
THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES THEY relate, O King of the Age and Lord of the Time and of these days...
afraid lest my mother should swinge me on account of the apple, so for fear of her I went with my b...
TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND HIS SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN KNOW, O Commander of the Faithful, that in tim...
not to thy youthtide's suggestions, and question us no questions." Then they slept and I with them,...
his mule and stayed not till he reached the Wazir's palace. There he dismounted and went in to the ...
saffron and blazing with light from branched candelabra of gold and lamps fed with costly oils, whi...
the meanest of mankind. Save thy dirhams and deem them the sovereignest salve for the wounds of the...
ELDEST THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE VERILY a strange tale is mine and 'tis this: Yon two black bitches ...
his beauty and loveliness and his face that shone like the new moon, their hearts inclined to him a...
fright you nor shake your steadfast sprite nor turn you back from the faith which is right.' Their ...
THIRD THE THIRD KALANDAR'S TALE KNOW, O my lady, that I also am a king and the son of a king and ...