Ibrahim Akel, Ph.D. (2016), National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris, is a Teacher - Researcher at Sciences Po, INALCO, and the University of Lille. He has published many articles on the Thousand and one Nights: Primary Sources, Editions and Translations. William Granara is Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. His teaching and research cover both classical and modern Arabic literature. He is the author of Narrating Muslim Sicily (2019), and translator of several Arabic novels into English.

The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights in all of their static and dynamic complexity. They follow the trajectory of the Nights' texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.