{"product_id":"ann-diyb-and-his-tales-james-weaver-9789004751903","title":"\u0026#7716;ann\u0026#257; Diy\u0026#257;b and His Tales: The Early Eighteenth-Century Syrian Storyteller and His Contribution to the Thousand and One Nights","description":"\u003ci\u003eḤannā Diyāb and His Tales\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on Ḥannā Diyāb, a Christian storyteller from Aleppo who originally narrated some of the world's most famous stories, among them \"Aladdin\" and \"Ali Baba.\" In the late spring of 1709, he told these tales in Paris to the scholar Antoine Galland, who published them in the concluding volumes of his French version of \u003ci\u003eThe Thousand and One Nights\u003c\/i\u003e. Long entirely unknown, Diyāb's role went underacknowledged in scholarship on the \u003ci\u003eNights\u003c\/i\u003e until recently. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e As a handbook, this volume brings some of the most important published scholarship on Diyāb together with new research, examining the sources of his tales and their reception, his interactions with Galland and Paul Lucas, and his literary environment in early eighteenth-century Aleppo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Weaver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004751904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004751903\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.94d","brand":"James Weaver","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852679983359,"sku":"9789004751903","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ann-diyb-and-his-tales-james-weaver-9789004751903","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}