Antoine Galland

Antoine Galland

male, deceased (1715)
islam, The Arabian Nights, The Thousand and One Nights, islamic, colbert, fantasy writer…TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights, University of Paris, Collector of fairy tales, Arabian Nights
Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 - February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of the...
Harun Al-Rashid

Harun Al-Rashid

male, deceased (809)
caliph, Haroon al Rasheed, Aaron the Upright, Hārūn al-Rashīd, Aaron the Rightly-Guided, Haroun al-Rashid…TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights, Aaron the Just
Hārūn al-Rashīd (also spelled Harun ar-Rashid, Haroun al-Rashid or Haroon al Rasheed; English: "Aaron the Upright", "Aaron the Just", or "Aaron the...
Abu Nuwas

Abu Nuwas

male, deceased (810)
Pederasty in the Middle East, Pederasty in the Muslim world, Ahvaz, Pederastic poetry, arab, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights…Pederasty in the Islamic world
Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami, was a renowned Arabic poet. Born in the city of Ahvaz in Persia, he was of Arab and Persian descent. He is...
Ibn Al-Nadim

Ibn Al-Nadim

male
persian, historian, baghdad, syriac, arab, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights
Abu'l-Faraj Muhammad bin Ishaq al-Warraq Very little is actually known about his life. He was a bookseller, a calligrapher who copied manuscripts...

Meguey Baker

female
Role-playing game designer, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights, American gamebook writer, Hampshire College, roleplaying, A Thousand and One Nights
Meguey Baker is a roleplaying game designer and independent publisher. She is the author of "A Thousand and One Nights" based on the collection of...
Rafi Gavron

Rafi Gavron

male, 20 years old
Simon Gavron, BBC, Martha Pichey, Raphael Pichey Gavron, HBO, Tintenherz…breaking and entering, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights
Rafi Gavron (born Raphael Pichey Gavron in 1989) is a British actor, known for his appearance as Miro in the Anthony Minghella romantic-drama film...
William Harvey

William Harvey

male, deceased (1866)
illustrator, artist, engraver, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights, English, Newcastle-upon-Tyne…The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Assassination of L. S. Dentatus
William Harvey (1796-1866) was an English engraver and designer. Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he was the son of a bath-keeper. At the age of 14, he...
Isabel Burton

Isabel Burton

female, deceased (1896)
Pederasty, TheBookofOneThousandandOneNights, Victorian, the perfumed garden, sin, The Arabian Nights…The Scented Garden
Isabel Burton (born Isabel Arundell) (March 20, 1831 - March 21, 1896) was the wife of explorer, adventurer, and writer Sir Richard Francis Burton....