In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XVIII: The Arabian Nights Part XVI

In this Episode we are reaching the conclusion of the story of “The Story of Nur-ud-din Ali and his Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter” continuing with Night XXIII and going into Night XXIV.

In this night we see that Shams-ud-din Mohammad, his daughter Sitt al-Husn, and his grandson Ajib, are all in Damascus and then going to Basrah to pick up Hasan Badr-ud-din’s mother and returning to Damascus where they finally find Hasan Badr-ud-din and take him in a unique method back to Cairo.

It should be noted that unlike the previous episode, where we could adequately identify the camping grounds that Shams-ud-din stayed in, this time the camping grounds are identifiable to some degree, but their history is not really known and my research as proven inconclusive. The area of Raidaniya (or al-Raydaniyeh according to Edward William Lane) is only identifiable with the battle between the Mamluk forces of Egypt and the Ottoman empire in 1517 C.E.

It is also unclear why Shams-ud-din went to the Viceroy to gain his permission to take Hasan Badr-ud-din, when he had already taken him and what this act was meant to accomplish.

I would love to hear your thoughts about it.