Books
Ali, Muhsin Jassim. Scheherazade in England: A Study in Nineteenth-Century English Criticism of the Arabian Nights. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1981.
Beaumont, Daniel. Slave of Desire: Sex, Love and Death in The 1001 Nights. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 2002.
Beckford, William. Vathek. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Bernstein, Matthew, and Studler, Gaylyn (ed). Visions of the East: Orientalism on Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.
Borges, Jorge Luis. Seven Nights. Translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger. New York: New Directions Pub. Corp., 1984.
Brodie, Fawn M. The Devil Drives. New York: W.W. Norton, 1967.
Burton, Lady Isabel. Life of Sir Richard F. Burton. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1893.
Burton, Sir Richard Francis. First Footsteps in East Africa. 2 vols. London: Tylston and Edwards, 1894. First published 1856.
——. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. 10 vols. Benares (London): Printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1885–86.
——. Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. 6 vols. Benares (London): Printed for the Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1886–88.
——. Vikram and the Vampire. London: Tylston and Edwards, 1893. First published 1870.
Byron, Lord (George Gordon). Works of Lord Byron. Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1994.
——. Don Juan. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1996. First published 1821.
Caracciolo, Peter L. (ed.). The Arabian Nights in English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Casada, James A. Sir Richard F. Burton: A Bibliographical Study. London: Mansell, 1990.
Chew, Samuel C. The Crescent and the Rose: Islam and England during the Renaissance. New York: Octagon Books, 1974.
Clot, Andre. Harun al-Rashid and the World of the Thousand and One Nights. Translated from the French by John Howe. New York: New Amsterdam Books, 1989.
Conant, Martha Pike. The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908.
Dawood, N.J. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1953.
D’Herbelot de Molainville, Barthelemy. Bibliothèque orientale. Paris: Compagnie des libraries, 1697.
Dickens, Charles. Christmas Stories. London: Dent, 1965.
Djebar, Assia. A Sister to Scheherazade. Trans. Dorothy S. Blain. London: Quartet, 1987. First published in Paris, 1987, as L’Ombre sultane.
Duffy, Maureen. The Erotic World of Faery. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972.
Galland, Antoine. Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français. 9 vols. Paris: Chez le normant, 1806.
——. Journal d’Antoine Galland pendant son séjour à Constantinople, 1672–1673, ed. Charles Schefer. 2 vols. Paris: Charles Schefer, 1881.
——. Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Gerhardt, Mia I. The Art of Story-Telling: A Literary Study of the Thousand and One Nights. London: E.J. Brill, 1963.
Ghazoul, Ferial J. Nocturnal Poetics: The “Arabian Nights” in Comparative Context. Cairo: American University in Cairo, 1996.
Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life. London: Nelson, 1966.
Goldsmith, Oliver. Citizen of the World. London: J. Newbery, 1762.
Haddawy, Husain. The Arabian Nights. Based on the text by Muhsin Mahdi. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
——. The Arabian Nights 2. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
Halim, Muhammed Abd al-. Antoine Galland, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris: A.G. Nizet, 1964.
——. Correspondence d’Antoine Galland: edition critique et commentée. Paris: n.p., 1964.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. New York: Rinehart, 1961. First published 1850.
Hentsch, Thierry. Imagining the Middle East. Trans. Fred A. Reed. New York: Black Rose Books, 1992.
Heron, Robert. Arabian Nights: The Continuation. 3 vols. London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1792.
Hoang, Lethuy. Les mille et une nuits: à travers l’infini des espaces et des temps: le conteur Galland, le conte et son public. New York: P. Lang, 2001.
Hole, Richard. Remarks on the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. London: T. Cadell, Jr., and W. Davies, 1797.
Hovannisian, Richard G., and Sabagh, Georges (ed.). The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
Irwin, Robert. The Arabian Nightmare. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Viking, 1982.
——. The Arabian Nights: A Companion. London: Tauris Parke, 2004. First published Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1994.
Kabbani, Rana. Europe’s Myths of Orient. London: Macmillan, 1985.
Kennedy, Dane. The Highly Civilized Man: Richard Burton and the Victorian World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Lane, Edward William. The Book of the Thousand and One Nights. 3 vols. London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839–41.
——. An Account of the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1842.
Layard, Henry Austen. Nineveh and Its Remains. 2 vols. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849.
Lovell, Mary. A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
Mackenzie, John M. Orientalism: History, Theory, and the Arts. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
Macnaghten, Sir William Hay (ed.). Arabian Nights. Arabic text. 4 vols. Calcutta: n.p., 1839-42.
Mahdi, Muhsin. The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Laila wa Laila) from the Earliest Known Sources. Arabic text. Leiden, The Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1984.
——. The Thousand and One Nights. New York: E.J. Brill, 1995.
Malouf, Amin. Balthasar’s Odyssey. Trans. Barbara Bray. London: Vintage, 2002.
Marchand, Leslie. Byron. London: John Murray, 1971.
Mardrus, Joseph-Charles. Arabian Nights. 4 vols. Trans. Edward Powys Mathers. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953. First published in French, 1899–1904.
Marzolph, Ulrich, and van Leeuwen, Richard (ed.). The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Masudi, al-. Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems. London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund, 1841.
May, Georges. Les mille et une nuits d’Antoine Galland. Paris: PUF, 1986.
Montesquieu, Charles Louis, Baron de. Persian Letters. New York: Penguin Books, 1973. First published in French, 1721.
Naddaff, Sandra. Arabesque: Narrative Structure and the Aesthetics of Repetition in the 1001 Nights. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1991.
Nadim, Ibn al-. The Fihirst of al-Nadim. Trans. Bayard Dodge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Oueijin, Naji B. The Progress of an Image: The East in English Literature. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
Payne, John. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. 9 vols. London: Printed for the Villon Society, 1882–84.
——. Tales from the Arabic. London: Printed for the Villon Society, 1884.
——. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp; Zein ul Asnan and the King of the Jinn…. London: Printed for the Villon Society, 1889.
Pinault, David. Story-Telling Techniques in the Arabian Nights. New York: E.J. Brill, 1992.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1966.
Potocki, Jan. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Trans. Ian Maclean. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
Redesdale, Lord (Algernon B.F. Mitford). Memories. 2 vols. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1915.
Rodinson, Maxime. Europe and the Mystique of Islam. Trans. Roger Veinus. Seattle: Distributed by University of Washington Press, 1987. First published in French, 1987.
Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980.
——. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.
——. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. London: Granta in association with Penguin, 1990.
Russell, Alexander. A Natural History of Aleppo. London: Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, 1794.
Said, Edward W. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Sallis, Eva. Scheherazade Through the Looking Glass: The Metamorphoses of the Thousand and One Nights. Richmond: Curzon, 1999.
Schwab, Raymond. L’auteur de Mille et Une Nuits: Vie d’Antoine Galland. Paris: Mercure de France, 1964.
——. The Oriental Renaissance. Trans. Gene Patterson-Black and Victor Reinking. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. First published in French, 1950.
Sebbar, Leila. Sherazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts: roman. Paris: Stock, 1982.
Shaftesbury, Earl of (Anthony Ashley-Cooper). Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times. 2 vols., ed. John M. Robinson. Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1963.
Simmons, James C. Passionate Pilgrims. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1987.
Symons, Arthur. Dramatis Personae. London: Bobbs-Merrill, 1923.
Tidrick, Kathryn. Heart-beguiling Araby. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Voltaire. Zadig, and Other Tales. Trans. Robert Bruce Boswell. London: G. Bell, 1910.
Weber, Henry (ed.). Tales of the East. 3 vols. Edinburgh: James Ballantyne & Co., 1812.
Wilson, Jeremy. Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence. London: Heinemann, 1989.
Wright, Thomas. Life of John Payne. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919.
——. Life of Sir Richard Burton. 2 vols. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. First published in London, 1906.
Young, G.M. Gibbon. London: P. Davies, 1932.
Zipes, Jack. The Arabian Nights. New York: Signet Classic, 1991.
Articles and Essays
Abbot, Nabia. “A Ninth-Century Fragment of the ‘Thousand Nights’ New Light on the Early History of The Arabian Nights,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies VIII, no. 3 (July 1949), 129–64.
Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Translators of The Thousand and one Nights,” in Borges: A Reader, ed. E.R. Monegal and A. Reid. New York: Dutton, 1981, 73–86.
Byatt, A.S. “Narrate or Die,” The New York Times Magazine, April 18, 1999, Section 6, 104–7.
Greer, Margaret. “Who’s Telling This Story Anyway? Framing Tales East and West: Panchatantra to Boccaccio to Zayas.” Address to the Mid-American Conference on Spanish Literature. Lawrence, KS: 1994.
Hanford, James B. “Open Sesame: Notes on the Arabian Nights in England,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 26 (Autumn 1964), 46–56.
——. “The Arabian Nights: An Early Copy of the French Translation,” Princeton University Library Chronicle XXIX, no. 5 (Spring 1968), 219–20.
Kennedy, Dane. “’Captain Burton’s Oriental Muck Heap’: The Book of the Thousand Nights and the Uses of Orientalism,” Journal of British Studies 39, no. 3 (2000), 317–39.
MacDonald, Duncan Black, “Alf Laila Wa-Laila,” The Encyclopedia of Islam, Supplement I (n.d.), 17–21.
——. “On Translating the Arabian Nights,” The Nation 71 (August 30 and September 6, 1900), 167–68, 185–86.
Oueijin, Naji B. “Orientalism: The Romantics’ Added Dimension or, Edward Said Refuted,” in Romanticism in its Modern Aspects: Review of National Literatures and World Report, ed. Virgil Nemoianu. Wilmington: Council on National Literatures, 1997, 37–50.
Toler, Pamela D. “The Hakawati of Paris,” Saudi Aramco World (January–February 2008), 34–39.