Arabic Version A (The Seven Viziers): Difference between revisions

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The version of the Sindbad narrative titled Kitāb al-Sindbād, or الوزراء السبعة [al-wuzarāʾ al-sabʿa, The Seven Viziers] is referenced in Arabic literature dating from the 9th and 10th centuries. Though no early versions of the text survive, allusions to the narrative may be found in al-Fihrist by Ibn al-Nadīm (d. 995 CE / 385 AH), in which Kitāb Sindbād al-Ḥakīm is referenced as a book of entertainment, and in Murūj al-Dhahab by al-Masʿūdī’ (d. 956 CE / 345 AH), who claims the wise man Sindbād lived during the reign of the Indian king Kush, and that the popular entertainment book known as Kitāb al-Sindbād relates the story of the Seven Viziers, the Prince, and the King's wife) (see Ateş 1948, pp. 12-13).

Identification and general Information
Reference Number
Siglum of the version of the Seven Sages
Title
Author

Tradition and Lineage
Branch of the tradition	East
Adapted from (version)
Adapted into (version)
Source for composition and adaptation information

Recorded secondary versions
Seven Viziers Arabic Version A (The Seven Viziers) Arabic Version A1001 (Thousand and One Nights) Arabic Version A101 (Hundred and One Nights)

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Language and Composition
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Place of composition
Date of composition
Islamic date of composition
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Modern Scholarship and Editions
Modern research literature	Ateş (1948)
Modern Editions

Notes and Commentary
Note

Pattern of embedded stories in this version

Has Short Title	Has Sequence Number	Has Narrator	Has Name Variation
Leo	1
Avis – The Bird	2
Lavator	3
Panes	4
Gladius – The Drawn Sword	5
Striga – The Prince and the Ogress	6
Mel	7
Zuchara	8
Fons	9
Balneator	10
Canicula	11
Aper – The Boar and the Fruit	12
Canis – The Faithful Dog	13
Pallium	14
Simia	15
Turtures	16
Elephantinus	17
Ingenia	18
Puer 3 annorum	19
Puer 5 annorum	20

Connected prints
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 |Has Branch Of Tradition=East
 |Has Original Language Of Version=Arabic
 |Has Modern Research Literature=Ateş (1948)
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