List of Illustrations | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Solomon the Wise King | |
The Fisherman and the Genie | p. 33 |
Master of Jinn | p. 36 |
The City of Brass | p. 54 |
Riding the Wind: The Flying Carpet I | p. 59 |
Prince Ahmed and Fairy Peri Banou | p. 71 |
A Tapestry of Great Price: The Flying Carpet II | p. 74 |
Dark Arts; Strange Gods | |
The Prince of the Black Islands | p. 87 |
The Worst Witch | p. 91 |
Egyptian Attitudes | p. 97 |
Hasan of Basra | p. 117 |
Magians and Dervishes | p. 126 |
A Fortune Regained | p. 141 |
Dream Knowledge | p. 143 |
Active Goods | |
'Everything You Desire to Know about the East… | p. 163 |
The Greek King and Doctor Douban | p. 191 |
The Thing-World of the Arabian Nights | p. 195 |
Abu Mohammed the Lazy | p. 210 |
The Word of the Talisman | p. 215 |
Marouf the Cobbler | p. 234 |
The Voice of the Toy | p. 240 |
Money Talks | p. 252 |
Oriental Masquerades | |
Magnificent Moustaches: Hamilton's Fooling, Voltaire's Impersonations | p. 265 |
Rosebud and Uns al-Wujud the Darling Boy | p. 282 |
The Jinniya and the Egyptian Prince | p. 284 |
'Symbols of Wonder': William Beckford's Arabesque | p. 289 |
Oriental Masquerade: Goethe's West-Eastern Divan | p. 309 |
Flights of Reason | |
Camar al-Zaman and Princess Badoura | p. 325 |
Thought Experiments: Flight before Flight | p. 330 |
Why Aladdin? | p. 357 |
Machine Dreams | p. 371 |
The Ebony Horse | p. 387 |
The Shadows of Lotte Reiniger | p. 390 |
Aladdin of the Beautiful Moles | p. 403 |
The Couch: A Case History | p. 405 |
Prince Ardashir and Hayat al-Nufus | p. 425 |
Conclusion: 'All the story of the night told over… | p. 429 |
Glossary | p. 437 |
Abbreviations | p. 439 |
The Stories | p. 441 |
Notes | p. 445 |
Bibliography | p. 499 |
Index | p. 517 |
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