The Tale of Attaf – the story behind the track

The Tale of Attaf is a track on our latest album release, Storytellers.

The Tale of Attaf is a story from One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah) which is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment.

• Wikipedia has a good summary of the history and content of the collection: One Thousand and One Nights

• You can read a translation of the Tale of Attaf HERE. This is from the version by Sir Richard Burton.