Category: Romance
This remarkable and fascinating romance, in its English version, was originally published under the auspices of the Oriental Translation Fund sixty-five years ago. Issued in the form of a costly folio, it was buried in great libraries, and scarcely found its way at all to the...
This remarkable and fascinating romance, in its English version, was originally published under the auspices of the Oriental Translation Fund sixty-five years ago. Issued in the...
2. BOOK I._Containing the history of Husn Bānū, the daughter of Burzakh the merchant--Her expulsion from the King of Khorasan’s capital, and her removal from her country--Her finding in t...
3. BOOK II._Hatim’s journey in quest of the Man of the Motto--His arrival at the famous Mountain of Kaf_[b2.01]--_His finding the motto in question written on the door of Harith, from whom...
4. BOOK III.The historians have informed us, that when Hatim set out on his journey from Shahabad he had not the least idea in what direction he ought to proceed. All he knew of the man in...
5. BOOK IV.We are informed by the learned, that when Hatim left Shahabad, he prosecuted his journey for several stages, till at length he came to the foot of a lofty mountain. There he obs...
6. BOOK V.The historians inform us, that as Hatim was journeying toward the desert of Nida he continued to ask his way in every city and town through which he passed. In the course of six...
7. BOOK VI.The narrators of past events have informed us that Hatim, after leaving Shahabad on his sixth adventure, came to a certain desert, across which he bent his course. After he had...
8. BOOK VII.After Hatim left Shahabad he traversed a wide desert till he arrived in a populous city, where he saw the inhabitants assembled round the mouth of a well. He approached; and ask...
9. BOOK I NOTES.[b1.04] #a painter... from behind a curtain# In Mahommedan countries, painters draw ladies’ portraits from behind a curtain or thin veil, as it would be considered a breach of d...
10. BOOK II NOTES.[b2.01] #Mountain of Kaf# The Mahommedans of the olden times, like the Christians before Copernicus, considered the earth as a plane of a circular form. On the confines or circu...
11. BOOK III NOTES.[b3.01] #you shall have no other wife than myself# As this injunction may appear a little unreasonable in a country where polygamy is lawful, the translator avails himself of th...
12. BOOK IV NOTES.[b4.01] #repeating certain attributes of the Deity# The great names, or attributes of the deity, are one hundred, and the repetition of them constitutes part of a Mussulman’s de...
13. BOOK V NOTES.[b5.01] This is no fictitious description, as similar scenes may be witnessed in Hindoostan to this very day. We may observe, however, that the _satti_ is here placed in its mos...
14. BOOK VI NOTES.[b6.03] #third watch# In the east, the most ordinary division of time is into watches, or rather was so formerly. In the astronomical day of twenty-four hours (or from sunrise t...