A fantasy novel inspired by the world of One Thousand and One Nights and its amazing characters. And just as “A Thousand and One Nights” is considered the most important oriental classical work and the most fertile in terms of imagination and ideas, this novel appears to be the largest manifestation of Mahfouz’s imagination and the most amazing among his fantasy and philosophical novels, as he formulates the story of Shahryar and Scheherazade in his own way, mixing the worlds of humans and goblins into a magical fabric. In it, the reader gets to know the genie imprisoned in a bottle since the time of Solomon, and sees the cap of concealment that explodes the energies of evil and domination. He follows Marouf the cobbler and his exploits, and Sinbad the Sailor and his adventures, in tales that incite philosophical contemplation as much as they are surprising. The novel was published in 1982.
