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page 1Translators of One Thousand and One Nights
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)

Antoine Galland
French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)
Ibn al-Nadim
10th century Arab scholar and bibliographer
Edward William Lane
British orientalist, translator, lexicographer and peace maker (1801–1876)
Gustav Weil
German orientalist (1808–1889)
Rafael Cansinos Assens
Spanish writer (1882-1964)
J. C. Mardrus
French physician, poet and translator (1868–1949)
Robert Irwin
British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature (1946–2024)
Muhsin Mahdi
Iraqi-American islamologist and arabist
Hanna Diyab
Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller
Edward Powys Mathers
British poet and crossword constructor (1892-1939)
Ratan Nath Dhar Sarshar
Indian writer and magazine editor (1846–1903)
John Payne
English poet and translator
Duncan Black MacDonald
American orientalist (1863-1943)
Mikhail Salye
Soviet orientalist (1899–1961)
Maejima Shinji
Japanese Arabist