Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
Sinbad the Sailor belongs to the One Thousand and One Nights, but not to the old Persian core of the collection. His cycle of seven voyages took its final shape later, in Egypt, around the 15th century.
He is the traveling merchant of the Islamic golden age: piety, greed, courage, and a complete inability to sit still once he is rich. Behind the monsters, the tale reads as an allegory of fortune rising and falling.
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- 2The cycle behind every voyage
- 3A fantastic bestiary between myth and fact
- 4A mirror of the golden age of Arab trade
- 5A universal legacy: from East to West
Open-book quiz8 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary11 terms explained in a tap.
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