ARABIAN FAIRY TALES

Retold by Amina Shah

Octagon Press, London, 1989

Beautiful princesses and terrifying monsters, Caliphs rich beyond dreams, powerful Jinns and ragged beggars, wise dervishes, talismans and treasures - find them all in these tales of adventure, enchantment and the strange patterns of fate. This beautiful anthology is a haunting reminder that the world is not as it seems.

Classical Arabian literature holds many of the finest stories in human knowledge, but the tales told by firelight, or starlight, or by the modern electric light bulb in coffee-houses of the present day from Cairo to Khartoum, from Andalucia to Nejd, show the imprint of many generations of constructive thought.
--From the Introduction of Arabian Fairy Tales ©1989 by Amina Shah