That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

* Modern Arabian Nights ( 1885 )

In the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherazade is portrayed as being the " voice of sanity and mercy ", with her philosophical position being generally opposed to punishment by death.

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

His first literary efforts, at the age of 11, took the form of fairy tales and imitations of the Arabian Nights.

Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

The earliest known example of a detective story was The Three Apples, one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One Nights ( Arabian Nights ).

Some of the films are based on legends such as Atlantis, and on literary works such as Journey to the West and Arabian Nights.

The production team of Tony Moran and Albert Cabrera, known as the Latin Rascals, created original music for radio station WKTU that included freestyle classics like 1984's " Arabian Nights ", and later hip-hop oriented projects such as the Cover Girls ' " Show Me ".

The most famous fables from the Middle East were the One Thousand and One Nights, also known as the Arabian Nights.

* One Thousand and One Nights ( also known as Arabian Nights, ca.

The earliest association between anime and adult animation occurred prior to the 1972 release of Fritz the Cat when American distributors attempted to cash in on the publicity garnered from the rating by rushing out dubbed versions of two other adult animations from Japan, both of which featured an X rating in their advertising material: Senya ichiya monogatari and Kureopatora, retitled One Thousand and One Arabian Nights and Cleopatra: Queen of Sex, respectively.

Here is the heady scent of jasmines amid the swaying palm tress, the dream fantasy of an Andalusian “ Arabian Nights ” in which Albéniz loved to let his imagination dwell .”

In a tradition from the Arabian Nights, a collection of myths and folk tales, Muhammad was said to have warned his followers against staring at youth because of their beauty: " Be careful, do not gaze at beardless youth, for they have eyes more tempting than the houris.

* The Arabian Nights ( 1863 )

* Arabian Nights and Days ( 1981 ) ليالي ألف ليلة

" The Nights have proved an inspiration to some modern Egyptian writers, such as Tawfiq al-Hakim ( author of the Symbolist play Shahrazad, 1934 ), Taha Hussein ( Scheherazade's Dreams, 1943 ) and Naguib Mahfouz ( Arabian Nights and Days, 1981 ).

* Arabian Days, an autobiography ( London: R. Hale ) 1948.

Arabian Nights ( and Days ) ( issues 42 to 45 ): A delegation of Arabian Fables led by Sinbad visits Fabletown to discuss an alliance against the Adversary.

* Arabian Nights ( And Days ), the seventh trade paperback collection of the comic book series Fables ( comics )

* 1981 – Malek Mouath, Saudi Arabian footballer

In his book The Early Islamic Conquests ( 1981 ), Fred Donner argues that the standard Arabian practice at the time was for the prominent men of a kinship group, or tribe, to gather after a leader's death and elect a leader from amongst themselves.

* 1304 – Ibn Battuta, Arabian explorer ( d. c. 1368 )

On 17 November 1326, following a month spent in Mecca, Ibn Battuta joined a large caravan of pilgrims returning to Iraq across the Arabian Peninsula.

In early 12th-century al-Andalus, the Arabian philosopher, Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ), wrote discussions on materialism in his philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan ( Philosophus Autodidactus ), while vaguely foreshadowing the idea of a historical materialism.

In the 14th-century Arabian Sea, the traveller Ibn Battuta provided the earliest known description of pearl diving by means of attaching a cord to the diver's waist.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

* Ibn al-Razzaz al-Raziri, Arabian scientist ( approximate date )

* Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan ( a. k. a. Geber ), Arabian alchemist ( approximate date )

* probable – Ibn Battuta, Arabian traveler

* Ibn al-Athir, Arabian historian ( b. 1160 )

* Ibn al-Banna, Arabian mathematician ( d. 1321 )

In 1242, the Arabian physician, Ibn al-Nafis, became the first person to accurately describe the process of pulmonary circulation, for which he is sometimes considered the father of circulatory physiology.

* 11th century — Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhazen ), an Arabian astronomer, refutes Aristotle's theory on the Milky Way by making the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax,

Theologus Autodidactus, written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis ( 1213 – 1288 ), is the first example of a science fiction novel.

Historical the movement gained unchallenged precedence in the Arabian peninsula through an alliance between Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the House of Muhammad ibn Saud who provided political and financial power for the religious revival represented by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab ( see Alliance with the House of Ibn Saud ).

With international recognition and support, Ibn Saud continued to consolidate his power, eventually conquering nearly all of the central Arabian Peninsula.

His chief rival in the Arabian peninsula was the king of the highlanders on the highland of Najd named Ibn Saud, who annexed the Hejaz in 1925 and set his own son, Faysal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, as governor.

In November 1917, Philby was sent to the interior of the Arabian peninsula as head of a mission to Ibn Saud.

On return Philby completed the crossing from Riyadh to Jeddah by the " backdoor " route, thus demonstrating Ibn Saud was in control of the Arabian highlands, whereas Sherif Hussein could not guarantee safe passage.

Using the ideology of Ibn Al-Wahhab, Ibn Saud helped establish the House of Saud among other forces in the Arabian peninsula.

Al-Risalah al-Kamiliyyah fil Siera al-Nabawiyyah ( The Treatise of Kamil on the Prophet's Biography ), known in English as Theologus Autodidactus ( which is a phonetic transliteration of the Greek name Θεολόγος Αυτοδίδακτος, meaning self-taught theologian ), written by the Arabian polymath Ibn al-Nafis ( 1213 – 1288 ), is the earliest known science fiction novel.

Ibn Zeyd al Hassan of Siraf, a 9th century Arabian traveler, reports that in 878 followers of the Chinese rebel leader Huang Chao besieged Canton ( Guangzhou ) and killed a large number of foreign merchants, Arabs, Persians, Christians, and Jews, resident there.

Similar references can be found in the notes of the Franciscan John of Montecorvino, first archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Beijing at the early of 14th century, and the writings of Ibn Batuta, an Arabian envoy to the Mongol Empire in the middle of 14th century.