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Who Is My Translator

Submitted by jrlewis on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 12:00pm

"In 1984 Muhsin Mahdi, a professor of Arabic literature at Harvard University, published a scholarly edition of the Nights which “will shape the course of subsequent scholarship on the Arabic text.” He based his edition on Galland, introduced corrections from eight other mss."

My copy of Arabian Nights was translated by Hussain Haddawy, who used Muhsin Mahdi's text.

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