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As our One Year Anniversary Episode I has highlighted, we now have a reading list for those who are interested in learning more about Obscenity, Censorship, Translations, Orientalism, or generally about of the One Thousand and One Nights.

Translations:

Ballaster, Ros. "The Sea-Born Tale: Eighteenth-Century English Translations of the One Thousand and One Nights and the Lure of Elemental Difference" in Scheherazade's Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights, edited by Philip K. Kennedy and Marina Warner, pp. 27-52. New York, USA: New York University Press, 2013.

Schacker-Mill, Jennifer. "Otherness and Otherworldiness: Edward W. Lane's Ethnographic Treatment of the Arabian Nights". The Journal of American Folklore volume 113, no. 448 (Spring, 2000): pp. 164-185.

Obscenity and Censorship:

Colligan, Colette. "A Race of Born Pederasts: Sir Richard Burton, Homosexuality, and the Arabs". Nineteenth-Century Contexts volume 25, no. 1 (2003): pp. 1-20.

"Esoteric Pornography: Sir Richard Burton's Arabian Nights and the Origins of Pornography". Victorian Review volume 28, no. 2 (2002): 31-64.

Heath, Deana. "Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity" in A Companion to the History of the Book, edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, pp. 508-519. Malden, MA: Backwell Publishing, 2007.

Naaman, Erez. "Eating Figs and Pomegranates: Taboos and Language in the Thousand and One Nights". Journal of Arabic Literature volume 44 (2013): pp. 335-370.

Abbasid Revolt:

Sharon, Moshe Black Banners from the East: The Establishment of the 'Abbasid State - Incubation of a Revolt, 1983.

                          Revolt: The Social and Military Aspects of the 'Abbasid Revolution, 1990

Abbasid Caliphate:

Bennison, Amira K. The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire, 2009

El-Hibri, Tayeb The Abbasid Caliphate: A History, 2021