Tales from the Arabic/Volume 1





Contents


 ../Asleep and Awake/1. ../Story of the Lackpenny and the Cook/ ../The Khalif Omar Ben Abdulaziz and the Poets/ ../El Hejjaj and the Three Young Men/ ../Haroun er Reshid and the Woman of the Barmecides/ ../The Ten Viziers; or the History of King Azadbekht and His Son/ Of the Uselessness of Endeavour Against Persistent Ill Fortune ../Story of the Unlucky Merchant/</ol> Of Looking to the Issues of Affairs <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="2"><li>../Story of the Merchant and His Sons/</li></ol> Of the Advantages of Patience <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="3"><li>../Story of Abou Sabir/</li></ol> Of the Ill Effects of Precipitation <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="4"><li>../Story of Prince Bihzad/</li></ol> Of the Issues of Good and Evil Actions <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="5"><li>../Story of King Dadbin and His Viziers/</li></ol> Of Trust in God <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="6"><li>../Story of King Bekhtzeman/</li></ol> Of Clemency <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="7"><li>../Story of King Bihkerd/</li></ol> Of Envy and Malice <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="8"><li>../Story of Ilan Shah and Abou Temam/</li></ol> Of Destiny or That Which Is Written on the Forehead <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="9"><li>../Story of King Ibrahim and His Son/</li></ol> Of the Appointed Term, Which, If It Be Advanced, May Not Be Deferred and If It Be Deferred, May Not Be Advanced <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="10"><li>../Story of King Suleiman Shah and His Sons/</li></ol> Of the Speedy Relief of God <ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha" start="11"><li>../Story of the Prisoner and How God Gave Him Relief/</li></ol></li> <li>../Jaafer Ben Yehya and Abdulmelik Ben Salih the Abbaside/</li> <li>../Er Reshid and the Barmecides/</li> <li>../Ibn es Semmak and Er Reshid/</li> <li>../El Mamoun and Zubeideh/</li> <li>../En Numan and the Arab of the Benou Tai/</li> <li>../Firouz and His Wife/</li> <li>../King Shah Bekht and His Vizier Er Rehwan/<ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha;"> <li>../Story of the Man of Khorassan, His Son and His Governor/</li> <li>../Story of the Singer and the Druggist/</li> <li>../Story of the King Who Knew the Quintessence of Things/</li> <li>../Story of the Rich Man Who Gave His Fair Daughter in Marriage to the Poor Old Man/</li> <li>../Story of the Rich Man and His Wasteful Son/</li> <li>../The King’s Son Who Fell in Love with the Picture/</li> <li>../Story of the Fuller and His Wife/</li> <li>../Story of the Old Woman, the Merchant and the King/</li> <li>../Story of the Credulous Husband/</li> <li>../Story of the Unjust King and the Tither/1. ../Story of David and Solomon/</li> <li>../Story of the Thief and the Woman/</li> <li>../Story of the Three Men and Our Lord Jesus/1. ../The Disciple’s Story/</li> <li>../Story of the Dethroned King Whose Kingdom and Good Were Restored to Him/</li> <li>../Story of the Man Whose Caution Was the Cause of His Death/</li> <li>../Story of the Man Who Was Lavish of His House and His Victual to One Whom He Knew Not/</li> <li>../Story of the Idiot and the Sharper/</li> <li>../Story of Khelbes and His Wife and the Learned Man/</li> </ol></li></ol>