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Khaled, A Tale of Arabia
F. Marion Crawford
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For a long time Khaled kept his eyes shut, listening to her voice. Then, on a sudden, he looked up, and without speaking so much as a word, he clasped her in his arms and kissed her.
Before it was day there was a great tumult in the streets of Riad, of which the noise came up even to the chamber where Khaled and Zehowah were sleeping. Zehowah awoke and listened, wondering what had happened and trying to understand the cries of the distant multitude. Then she laid her hand upon Khaled's forehead and waked him.
'What is it?' he asked.
'It is war,' she answered. 'The enemy have surprised the city in the night of the feast. Arise and take arms and go out to the people.'
Khaled sprang up and in a moment he was clothed[53] and had girt on his sword. Then he took Zehowah in his arms.
'While I live, you are safe,' he said.
'Am I afraid? . . . Read More
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An Arabian-Nights-style tale of a djinn who, after taking it upon himself to kill a hypocrite who would have pretended to convert to Islam in order to marry a sultan's beautiful daughter, is both punished and rewarded by being made human. However, he has to win a soul for himself by getting the sult
"Es mas fácil conquistar un reino que el corazón de una mujer", premisa clave en esta fantasía oriental, al estilo de las mil y una noches, pero que Crawford adereza con este dilema del amor y su significado, en las alcobas de palacio, en el desierto, en la Arabia de Alá y su único profeta, Mahoma.
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I’m filing this under fantasy but really this comes under that charming subgenre of Middle-East/Arabia = fantasy because it’s a bit exotic like the Arabian Nights, isn’t it?
But let’s not be unfair, just as Haggard’s hoary old Imperialist sensibilities produced some surprisingly rousing, but also sen
Set in the world of the Arabian Nights, this is the story of a hard-working djinn named Khaled. He is so conscientious that, while watching the parade of princes and sultans seeking the hand of the lovely Princess Zehowah, he takes an Indian prince, who was about to win Zehowah’s hand in marriage, i
This was one of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read. Khaled is a genie who is also an adherent to the Muslim faith who strives always to live by Allah’s dictates. He steps astray, however, when he intervenes in human affairs and kills a non-Muslim prince from India who has lied about hi
Recommended by a new friend, I took up this author's work for the first time and was just bowled over. Probably one of the easiest genre-settings to do poorly would be an Arabian Nights kind of tale. But Mr. Crawford displays an ironclad grip of the descriptions, the dialogue, plus a detailed knowle
Considering the extent of the 19th century obsession with The Mysterious East and the enormous vogue for orientalist art it’s perhaps surprising that there weren’t more novels using Arabian Nights-style settings. There was of course William Beckford’s Vathek, and there was also F. Marion Crawford’s