The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor
A rich old merchant tells a poor porter how he earned his fortune: seven voyages, seven shipwrecks, giant birds, a valley of diamonds and the Old Man of the Sea.
Arabian Nights stories
These Arabian Nights stories bring together voyages, clever escapes, genies, and marvelous adventures, from The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor to The Fisherman and the Genie. Read them at your own pace or listen in a natural voice; every story on Pagehush is free to read or to listen to.
The Enchanted Horse
At a Persian new-year feast, an inventor shows the Sultan a mechanical horse that can fly.
The Fisherman and the Genie
A poor fisherman pulls up a copper jar sealed with Solomon's seal.
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
A poor, idle boy, a wicked magician, a cave full of jewelled fruit and an old lamp with a genie inside.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A poor woodcutter overhears the magic words, "Open, Sesame!", that open a robbers' cave full of treasure.
Ali Cogia, Merchant of Bagdad
Before a long journey, Ali Cogia hides a thousand gold pieces under the olives in a jar and leaves it with his neighbour.
Alnaschar's Dream
Lazy Alnaschar spends his whole inheritance on a basket of glassware to sell.
Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou
Three princes love their cousin Nouronnihar, and the Sultan sends them out into the world: whoever brings back the rarest wonder will marry her.
Sidi-Nouman
The Caliph sees a man cruelly riding his mare round and round the square every day and demands to know why.
The Barmecide's Feast
Schacabac is starving when a rich nobleman invites him to dinner and offers him dish after dish, except that the plates are empty.
The Blind Baba-Abdalla
A blind beggar in Bagdad will take no alms unless the giver also strikes him.
The Tales of Mulla Nasruddin
Is Mulla Nasruddin the silliest man in town, or the wisest? He feeds soup to his coat, rescues the moon from a well and lends a pot that has a baby.
The Talking Bird, the Singing Tree and the Golden Water
Two jealous sisters steal the Sultana's three babies and set them adrift on the canal.
The Young King of the Black Isles
A Sultan follows a fisherman's strange four-coloured fish to a palace by a lake, and finds a young king whose body has been turned to marble from the waist down by…
अलादीन और जादुई चिराग
एक ग़रीब, आलसी लड़का, एक दुष्ट जादूगर, जवाहरात के पेड़ों वाली गुफ़ा और एक पुराना चिराग़ जिसमें जिन्न रहता है। "हज़ार एक रातों"
अलीबाबा और चालीस चोर
एक ग़रीब लकड़हारा "खुल जा सिम सिम!" की आवाज़ सुनकर चोरों की गुफ़ा का रास्ता खोल देता है। उसका लालची भाई सारा ख़ज़ाना चाहता है, और चालीस चोर बदला।
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