@article{2012the author = {}, title = {The Hundred and One Nights: A Recently Discovered Old Manuscript}, journal = {Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft}, volume = {162}, number = {2}, year = {2012}, abstract = {SummaryIn the year 2005, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has acquired a manuscript of the Hundred and One Nights, a work that constitutes a sibling to the Book of the Stories of the Thousand and One Nights, better known in English as the Arabian Nights. The manuscript is bound together with a copy of the Book of Geography (Kitāb al-Jughrāfiya) compiled by Muḥammad b. Abū Bakr az-Zuhrī, an author who lived in the Spanish city of Granada, then under Muslim domination, at the beginning of the twelfth century. The calligrapher's colophon dates the completion of his copy of the Book of Geography to Rabīʿ II 632 (commenced December 24, 1234). Both books are written in a fairly similar Maghrebi hand, and the paper of both books appears to be the same. Considering the fact that the oldest unambiguously dated manuscript of the Hundred and One Nights known so far dates from 1190/1776, and that the oldest preserved manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights dates from the fifteenth century, the recently discovery manuscript deserves particular attention. While a comprehensive evaluation of the manuscript's importance will only be possible after detailed scrutiny, the present short essay serves to present the manuscript to international research.}, url = {https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.162.2.0299} doi = {10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.162.2.0299} }