New paperback set of The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla) by Muhsin S. Mahdi with a new Introduction by Aboubakr Chraïbi in two volumes: Volume 1. Introduction by Aboubakr Chraïbi; English Introduction by Muhsin Mahdi; Arabic Text Volume 2. Critical Apparatus; Description of Manuscripts; Indexes, including addenda and corrigenda also by Ibrahim Akel This is a paperback reprint in two volumes of Muhsin Mahdi’s definitive edition of the oldest preserved manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris, which was originally published in three volumes (1984-1994). It includes the original survey of both the print and manuscript traditions of The Thousand and One Nights, with extensive notes and three appendices.