3 ms·
The english translation that you quoted sounds very similar in nature to the english translation of Quranic verses. The Quran is kind of poetic in its language
by webmobdev 6y ago
The english translation that you quoted sounds very similar in nature to the english translation of Quranic verses. The Quran is kind of poetic in its language and hence its translation always sounds a bit odd. This makes me wonder whether the original Arabian Nights were also in the nature of a narrative poem?
- selimthegrim 6y agoBecause NJ Dawood did a Quran translation as well
- gjm11 6y agoThat can't explain any similarity between what I quoted and English translations of the Qur'an -- because while what I quoted came from the intro to Dawood's translation of the Nights, what it is is a sample of Burton's translation (which Dawood quotes as an example of Burton's oddity).