Daily Medieval

This will make more sense if you read Part 1 . Shams has brought his daughter, Sit, and her son, 'Ajib, to Damascus on their quest to fi...

The full title of this tale, which is found in every version of the 1001 Nights , is "The Tale of Nur al-Din Ali and His Son Badr al-Di...

This illustration and the post that follows will make more sense if you read Part 1 . So Caliph Harun al-Rashid has given his vizier, Ja...

One of the stories that is found in every fragment/manuscript of the 1001 Nights  is called by two different titles: "The Three Apples...

Yesterday I mentioned that you would know who Jaʿfar ibn Yaḥyā al-Barmakī, an Abbasid vizier, was, even if you did not recognize the name. Y...