Chapter four. The Worst Witch

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. A Note on the Text vi
3. Contents ix
4. List of Illustrations xi
5. Acknowledgements xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Solomon the Wise King
8. Story 1. The Fisherman and the Genie 33
9. Chapter one. Master of Jinn 36
10. Story 2. The City of Brass 54
11. Chapter two. Riding the Wind: The Flying Carpet I 59
12. Story 3. Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou 71
13. Chapter three. A Tapestry of Great Price: The Flying Carpet II 74
14. Part II. Dark Arts; Strange Gods
15. Story 4. The Prince of the Black Islands 87
16. Chapter four. The Worst Witch 91
17. Chapter five. Egyptian Attitudes 97
18. Story 5. Hasan of Basra 117
19. Chapter six. Magians and Dervishes 126
20. Story 6. A Fortune Regained 141
21. Chapter seven. Dream Knowledge 143
22. Part III. Active Goods
23. Chapter eight ‘Everything You Desire to Know about the East ...’ 163
24. Story 7. The Greek King and Doctor Douban 191
25. Chapter nine. The Thing-World of the Arabian Nights 195
26. Story 8. Abu Mohammed the Lazy 210
27. Chapter ten. The Word of the Talisman 215
28. Story 9. Marouf the Cobbler 234
29. Chapter eleven. The Voice of the Toy 240
30. Chapter twelve. Money Talks 252
31. Part IV. Oriental Masquerades
32. Chapter thirteen. Magnificent Moustaches: Hamilton’s Fooling, Voltaire’s Impersonations 265
33. Story 10. Rosebud and Uns al-Wujud the Darling Boy 282
34. Chapter fourteen. ‘Symbols of Wonder’: William Beckford’s Arabesque 289
35. Chapter fifteen. Oriental Masquerade: Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan 309
36. Part V. Flights of Reason
37. Story 12. Camar al-Zaman and Princess Badoura 325
38. Chapter sixteen. Thought Experiments: Flight before Flight 330
39. Chapter seventeen. Why Aladdin? 357
40. Chapter eighteen. Machine Dreams 371
41. Story 13. The Ebony Horse 387
42. Chapter nineteen. The Shadows of Lotte Reiniger 390
43. Story 14. Aladdin of the Beautiful Moles 403
44. Chapter twenty. The Couch: A Case History 405
45. Story 15. Prince Ardashir and Hayat al-Nufus 425
46. Conclusion: ‘All the story of the night told over ...’ 429
47. Glossary 437
48. Abbreviations 439
49. The Stories 441
50. Notes 445
51. Bibliography 499
52. Index 517