Title The book of travels. Volume one / Ḥannā Diyāb ; edited by Johannes Stephen ; translated by Elias Muhanna ; foreword by Yasmine Seale ; afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta ; volume editor, Michael Cooperson

Published New York : New York University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xlii, 338 pages) : maps Series Library of Arabic Literature Library of Arabic literature Contents Foreword / Yasmine Seale -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Notes to the Introduction -- Chapter One -- My Departure from Tripoli in the Company of the Traveler Paul Lucas, in the Month of February 1707 of the Christian Era -- My First Time at Sea with Paul Lucas, in the Month of May 1707 -- Our Voyage to Egypt and What Happened to Us in the Month of June 1707 -- Our Travels to the Maghreb in the Year 1708 -- Our Journey to the Lands of the Franks in the Year 1708 -- Our Voyage to France -- Our Journey from Provence to France and the City of Paris -- Notes -- Glossary of Names and Terms Summary The adventures of the man who created Aladdin, The Book of Travels is Ḥanna 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, Ḥanna 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 Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Project Muse, viewed May 2, 2022) Subject Diyāb, Ḥannā, approximately 1687- -- Travel Lucas, Paul, 1664-1737. SUBJECT Lucas, Paul, 1664-1737 fast Subject Travelers' writings, Arabic -- Translations into English Travelers' writings, Arabic -- Early works to 1800 Travelers' writings, Arabic -- Early works to 1800 -- Translations into English LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Middle Eastern. Travel Travelers' writings, Arabic SUBJECT Aleppo (Syria) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Paris (France) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800 Subject Syria -- Aleppo France -- Paris Genre/Form Early works Translations Form Electronic book Author Stephan, Johannes, editor Muhanna, Elias, translator Seale, Yasmine, writer of foreword Horta, Paulo Lemos, writer of afterword Cooperson, Michael, editor ISBN 9781479837274 147983727X

Other Titles Kitāb al-Siyāḥah

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