If you're drawn to the rich tapestry of Arabian folklore, "Arabian Nights and Days" by Naguib Mahfouz will transport you beyond the original tales. Mahfouz, a master storyteller, delves deep, adding layers of philosophical insight that make these familiar stories resonate with contemporary truth and relevance. His narrative magic invites you on a carpet ride through a world where the ancient and the modern meet.

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The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs their depths for timeless truths.

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