"The Thousand and One Nights"
- Artist/Author/Producer: Origin unknown, first translation from the Arabic by A. Galland
- Confronting Bodies: U.S. Customs
- Dates of action: 1927
- Location: United States
- Description of the Art Work
- Origin unknown, first translation from the Arabic by A. Galland "The
Thousand and One Nights", in Paris, 1704-1712: a collection of stories of
uncertain date and authorship, whose tales of Aladin, Ali Baba, and
Sinbad the Sailor have almost become part of Western folklore. The
stories are set in Central Asia -the island or peninsula of India and
China.
- Description of incident
- 1927, New York City, USA: The Customs held up 500 sets of the
translation by French scholar, Mardrus, which were imported form England.
- Results of incident
- 1931 New York City, USA: Ban lifted on the unexpurgated translation
(1885-1888), by Richard Francis Burton, but the prohibition was
maintained on the Mardrus edition.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
