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The Story of Sayf al-Mulūk in South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2007

Christopher Shackle
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Seyf-el-Mulook answered him, May God (whose name be exalted!) make it [thy country] ever to be honoured by thy rule, O King! And the King Faghfoor Shah said, Nought hath brought thee hither save some affair that hath occurred to thee; and whatever thing thou desirest to obtain from my country, I will accomplish it for thee.

Most English readers may not remember the story these lines from Edward Lane's translation relate to, but the sub-Biblical language in which the exotically named characters converse should be enough to site the story of Sayf al-Mulūk in the magically Oriental world of the Thousand and One Nights as it was conceived in the Victorian imagination.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 115 - 129
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2007

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