(ALF LAYLAH WA LAYLAH) STORY OF KING SHAHRYAR AND HIS BROTHER 1. In the Name of Allah,the Compassionating, the Compassionate! 2 2. THE TALE OF THE BULL AND THE ASS. 9 3. THE FISHERMAN AND THE JINNI 13 4. THE TALE OF THE ENSORCELED PRINCE. 20 5. THE PORTER AND THE THREE LADIES OF BAGHDAD.. 25 6. WHOSO SPEAKETH OF WHAT CONCERNETH HIM NOT SHALL HEAR WHAT PLEASETH HIM NOT! 28 7. THE FIRST KALANDAR'S TALE. 34 8. THE SECOND KALANDAR'S TALE. 38 9. HE THIRD KALANDAR'S TALE. 47 10. THE ELDEST LADY'S TALE. 57 11. THE TALE OF THE THREE APPLES. 61 12. TALE OF NUR AL-DIN ALI AND HIS SON BADR AL-DIN HASAN.. 65 13. THE CITY OF MANY-COLUMNED IRAM AND ABDULLAH SON OF ABI KILABAH.. 90 14. THE SWEEP AND THE NOBLE LADY.. 93 15. THE MAN WHO STOLE THE DISH OF GOLD WHEREIN THE DOG ATE. 95 16. THE RUINED MAN WHO BECAME RICH AGAIN THROUGH A DREAM... 96 17. THE EBONY HORSE. 97 18. THE ANGEL OF DEATH WITH THE PROUD AND THE DEVOUT MAN.. 110 19. SINDBAD THE SEAMAN AND SINDBAD THE LANDSMAN.. 111 20. FIRST VOYAGE OF SINDBAD HIGHT THE SEAMAN.. 112 21.

THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINDBAD THE SEAMAN KNOW, O company, that after my return from my sixth voyage, which brought me abundant profit, I resumed my former life in all possible joyance and enjoyment and mirth and making merry day and night. And I tarried sometime in this solace and satisfaction, till my soul began once more to long to sail the seas and see foreign countries and company with merchants and hear new things. So, having made up my mind, I packed up in bales a quantity of precious stuffs suited for sea trade and repaired with them from Baghdad city to Bassorah town, where I found a ship ready for sea, and in her a company of considerable merchants. I shipped with them and, becoming friends, we set forth on our venture in health and safety, and sailed with a wind till we came to a city called Madinat-al-Sin. But after we had left it, as we fared on in all cheer and confidence, devising of traffic and travel, behold, there sprang up a violent head wind and a tempest of rain fell on us and drenched us and our goods. So we covered the bales with our cloaks and garments and drugget and canvas, lest they be spoiled by the rain, and betook ourselves to prayer and supplication to Almighty Allah, and humbled ourselves before Him for deliverance from the peril that was upon us. But the captain arose and, tightening his girdle, tucked up his skirts, and after taking refuge with Allah from Satan the Stoned, clomb to the masthead, whence he looked out right and left, and gazing at the passengers and crew, fell to buffeting his face and plucking out his beard. So we cried to him, "O Rais, what is the matter?" and

is all that hath come down to us of the origin of this book, and Allah is All-knowing. So Glory he to Him Whom the shifts of Time waste not away, nor doth aught of chance or change affect His sway, Whom one case diverteth not from other case and Who is sole in the attributes of perfect grace. And prayer and peace he upon the Lord's Pontiff and Chosen One among His creatures, our lord MOHAMMED, the Prince of mankind, through whom we supplicate Him for a goodly and a godly FINIS. Middle East & Islamic Studies, URL: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/