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Husain Haddawy was born and grew up in Baghdad, taught English and comparative literature at various American universities, wrote art criticism, and is now living in retirement in Thailand.

The present new translation of Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the BibliothEque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic.

This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.

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	The Arabian Nights: Alf Laylah Wa-Laylah by Anonymous, Husain Haddawy (Translator), Muhsin Mahdi (Original Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 80,942 ratings — published 800 — 209 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arabian Nights II: Sindbad and Other Popular Stories by Anonymous, Husain Haddawy (Translation) 4.06 avg rating — 1,196 ratings — published 800 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arabian Nights by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Editor), Husain Haddawy (Translator), Muhsin Mahdi (Original Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 230 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Arabian Nights Entertainments: Complete by Anonymous, Husain Haddawy (Translator), Muhsin Mahdi (Translator) did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	[(Sindbad: And Other Stories from the andquot;Arabian Nightsandquot;)] [Author: Muhsin Mahdi] published on (July, 2008) by Husain Haddawy, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thousand and One nights, Commonly Called, in england, the Arabian nights' Entertainments. (3 vols) by Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi, Bennett Cerf 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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