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... Ibid, 167, 169, 179, 182, 183, 184. 8T he Eastward Ho reading is from BenJonson, eds. C.H. H erfo rd an d Percy Simpson. Vol. IV. Oxford: C larendon P, 1932. 9 Mylryne, DELARIVIERE MANLEY S ALMYNA AND DATING THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTER TAINMENTS The problem o f dating die...

.... 447, lines 7 (atop the V in Alysaundir ) , 16 (again Alysaundir ) , and 20 (atop the 'r in othir The scribe s most-used V has no such ascender and resembles the m odern letter. THE ARABIAN CONTEXT OF OTHELLO AS INDIA INDIAN-LIKE: EVIDENCE FROM WROTH AS WELL AS MARLOWE AND NASHE It is high time...

..., DELARIVIERE MANLEY S ALMYNA AND DATING THE FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTER TAINMENTS The problem o f dating die first edition of the Arabian Nights in English has been a vexing one. Sheila Shaw remarks that the problem of dating the first English edition is one of the m ost baffling...

...: ''Arabian Nigh ts Entertainments: consisting of One Thousand and One Stories, told by the Sultaness of the Indies, to divert the Sultan from the Execution of a bloody vow . . ., containing abetter account, o fthe Customs, Manners, and Religion o fthe Eastern Nations, viz.: Tartars, Persians and Indians...

... to subsume all these qualities and inform w hat is called Literary Human­ ism. As the literary product of Late Antique urban Arabian society, the Qur'än is articulated w ith great cultural refinement, albeit cloaked in the austere apocalyptic w o rldview of scripture. As the articulator of Qur'änic...

... in Alysaundir ) , 16 (again Alysaundir ) , and 20 (atop the 'r in othir The scribe s most-used V has no such ascender and resembles the m odern letter. THE ARABIAN CONTEXT OF OTHELLO AS INDIA INDIAN-LIKE: EVIDENCE FROM WROTH AS WELL AS MARLOWE AND NASHE It is high time that one of the most famous textual...

...; or, a single horse­ man, armed w ith the blunderbuss and stiletto, and prowling over the plain.Thus the coun­ try, the habits, the very looks o f the people, have som ething o f the Arabian character."25 War seems a fundam ental fact in Spain: the blunderbuss and the stiletto are written into the landscape...

... traditional gown worn for special occasions) and nafnoof (a traditional, everyday women’s dress with a high waist) into more modern-style and pan-Arabian jalabiyyas (traditional dresses). Today’s jalabiyyas come in more pan-Arabian styles and in a variety of fabrics, qualities, and trends—at times even...

... in Litvin, Arab, and Carlson, Four Arab Hamlet Plays . 111   Hennessey, Shakespeare on the Arabian Peninsula , 274 . 112  Drunkenness is connected to the catastrophe in Shakespeare’s main source, Saxo Grammaticus’s Historiae Danicae . Amleth exacts his revenge by getting his uncle and his...

... Rome, she seized the Romans' Arabian provinces, invaded Egypt, declaring herself its queen, and then attacked Anatolia and Ankara. At this point, the Romans, well aware of her desire to create her own kingdom H e yd t-Ste v e n s o n 95 and be emancipated from their dominion, declared war...

... to an interpretation of the verse o f Paradise Lost in question, even if it does allow a broader perspective on the potential for relative functions of place names. In one sense, the confusion can be cleared up by referencing the topographical repre­ sentations of the Arabian Peninsula on Renaissance maps...

... seminars were planned: Global Stories, Global Cities, a course that w ould encompass the Arabian Nights, Decameron, CanterburyTales, Mahabharata, and other nar­ ratives, and a seminar on pre- and early modern science in the West and East. I also w ant­ ed a course that w ould revisit the long history...

... whose intentions remain ambiguous for the duration of the novel, and this scene suggests that ambiguity, cultivated as a survival tactic, makes definitive choices impossible. Like Scheherazade in The Arabian Nights , Aslima’s opacity is sustained through a series of deferrals that must continue...

.... The “positive” affectivity she feels when exposed to images of African and Arabian “Blackness” forces her into a liminal hotspot and traps her into treading water, experiencing the outward symbols of modernity but unable to possess them. This lends potency to McKay’s earlier suggestion that Lafala’s legs...

... and civilian Spanish populations.” 29 For clarity’s sake, I have indicated the rhyme scheme in the margin: The conquering Moor an homage paid to Spain a And the Alhambra lifted up its towers! b Africa’s fingers tipped with miracles, c And quivering with Arabian designs, d Traced words...

.... As Bacon put it: “The Greciani [Greeks] attributed much, both for health and for prolongation of life, [to] Opiates, but the Arabians much more, insomuch that their grand Medicines (which they called the gods Hands ) had Opium for their Basis and principal ingredient.” 34 Bacon clearly had...

... ) through the intermediary of the South Arabian ( Jeffery, Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān , 47–48 ). Meanwhile, Satan appears exclusively in the Christian story of the temptation of Adam and Eve. That transmission is traditionally rooted in Islamic studies. The apparent advantage of it appears...

... oriental oriental tale, th a t ground had been reconnoitered since the early eighteenth ce ntury by G alland's Les M ille et Une N uits (1704) and the num erous Arabian N ights variants th a t fo llow ed . Byron's notes to The Giaour, w h ich reference o rie n ta lis t fic tio n s by W illiam Beckford...

... habitus. It is not o n ly tha t the scene shifts from the W adi to the new oil tow n of Harran, but also that the characters w ith w hom the reader has lived and breathed fo r the first hundred pages largely drop from view, to be replaced by a succession o f new genera­ tions from all over the Arabian...