>Maybe the real Simurgh was the friends we made along the way
>>25508258What a thoroughly disappointing read. I swear arabs can't write for shit and I am ever more willing to accept that whoever wrote 1001 nights was a jeet
>>25508412>arabs
>>25508434Persians, whatever. Potato, potahto
>>25508412A Frenchman, actually
Lilingering
>>25508654What did you mean by this?
>>25511235He meant by that Antoine Galland whose unfaithful translation is what made the book a classic. For the longest time the Arabic version itself was a translation of the French "remaster" (or "Belle Infidele" in French). The most famous stories were also written by him such as Sinbad or Ali Baba.
>>25511247I just read Fitzgerald's Bird Parliament, what did I miss?
ya'allah why do the sunni kaffir birds seek a secular king rather than simply obeying their local imam
>>25511247so the french version is actually better than the original?
>>25511866Fitzgerald is good for RubaiyatI have not read his birds poem. Nor this particular penguin translationBut I liked it>>25514910He is refereing to Arabian Nights not bird poem>>25512522Dem birds be shirking>>25508412Iranians are Aryan
>>25514910Yes but without smut.
>>25508412I found it to be very interesting (I read the Dick Davis translation). Brought me closer to understanding the concept of god.
>>25508412>beautiful religious allegory about birds is inferior to short stories about women cheating on their husbands
