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Richard Leeuwen

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Gender Male
Age 68
Date of birth August 9,1955
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Amsterdam
Netherlands
Job Arabist
BooksThe Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines
The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings
Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
Arabic Studies in the Netherlands: A Short History in Portraits, 1580–1950
The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia
Waqfs and Urban Structures: The Case of Ottoman Damascus
Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon: The Khāzin Sheikhs and the Maronite Church, 1736-1840
The Political Emancipation of the Maronite Church in Mount Lebanon, 1736-1842
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Richard van Leeuwen teaches at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Thousand and One Nights and his translation of the work directly from the Arabic is widely regarded as the authoritative Dutch translation.

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