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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 6 (of 6)

Note 396 — HISTORY OF PRINCE HABIB AND WHAT BEFEL HIM WITH THE LADY DURRAT AL-GHAWWAS.

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

The Arab. “Moon of the Time” becomes in the olden versions “Camaulzaman,” which means, if anything, “Complete Time,” and she is the daughter of a Jinn-King “Illabousatrous (Al-’Atrús?).” He married her to a potent monarch named “Shah-Goase” (Shah Ghawwás = King Diver), in this version “Sábúr” (Shahpur), and by him Kamar Al-Zaman became the mother of Durrat al-Ghawwas.

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