Hanna Diyab: Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller
Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab (Arabic: أنطون يوسف حنا دياب) was a Syrian writer and storyteller.
He is best known today for tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves which have been added to the One Thousand and One Nights by French orientalist Antoine Galland, who had translated and included them after listening it from Diyab. Diyab was a Maronite.
Hanna Diyab | |
|---|---|
| Born | Antun Yusuf Hanna Diyab c. 1688 |
| Died | after 1763 |
| Other names | Youhanna Diab |
| Occupations |
|
| Known for | Best version tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba |
| Notable work | The Book of Travels |
Early life
Diyab was born around 1688 AD in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria. He was the youngest of his three brothers. His Maronite Christian family were traders. He had learned French, Italian, Turkish and Occitan. In 1707, he met the French traveller Paul Lucas. Hanna Diyab became his servant and translator. They sailed to Egypt, Tripoli, Tunisia and then to Corsica, Livorno, Genoa and Marseille. They came to Paris in 1708.
References
This short article about a person or group of people can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Hanna Diyab, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.