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Zayn Al-Asnam

Prince Zayn Al-Asnam discovers an underground palace with eight statues of “jewelled images”. Zayn Al-Asnam sets out on a quest for a beautiful young girl, to be placed on a ninth, unoccupied pedestal. A Jinn gives Zayn Al-Asnam a mirror called the touch-stone of virtue, which Zayn Al-Asnam uses to discover whether the damsel he chooses is chaste. After a long search, the daughter of a Wazir turns out not only to be beautiful and virtuous, but also a prize by the Jinn to Zayn Al-Asnam as his wife.
Alias Prince Zayn Al-Asnam
Real Names/Alt Names Zayn Al-Asnam
Characteristics Arabian Nights, Medieval Age, Juvenile, Middle Eastern
Creators/Key Contributors Unknown
First Appearance Middle Eastern folklore
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Appearance List Literary: One Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights (c. 1706–1721), Antoine Galland’s Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français (English edition, 1711), The Adventures of Houran Banow, etc. (c. 1770), The seven voyages of Sinbad the sailor. And The story of Aladdin; or, The wonderful lamp (1794), Edgar Allan Poe’s The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845), Sir Richard Burton’s The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (tale 120 in Volume 6, 1885), The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales by Smith, Wiggin, and Parrish (1909), et. al. Film: Sinbad Khalashi, or Sinbad the Sailor (silent, Indian, 1930), Sinbad the Sailor (animated, 1935), Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (animated, 1936), Arabian Nights (1942), Sinbad the Sailor (1947), Sinbad Jahazi, or Sinbad the Sailor (Indian, 1952), Son of Sinbad (1955), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Sindbad ki Beti, or Daughter of Sindbad (Indian, 1958), Son of Sinbad (Indian, 1958), Arabian naito: Shindobaddo no bôken (Arabian Nights: Adventures of Sinbad, animated, Japanese, 1962), Captain Sindbad (1963), Sinbad contro i sette saraceni (Sinbad against the Seven Saracens, Italian, 1964), Sindbad Alibaba and Aladdin (Indian, 1965), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). Television: Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt (1965). Comics: Son of Sinbad #1, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Jumbo Comics #48, Blue Beetle #20, Four Color #50, Fairy Tale Parade #2, 8, True Comics #50, Treasure Comics #4, Candy #10, Abbott and Costello Comics #10.
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Description Prince Zayn Al-Asnam discovers an underground palace with eight statues of “jewelled images”. Zayn Al-Asnam sets out on a quest for a beautiful young girl, to be placed on a ninth, unoccupied pedestal. A Jinn gives Zayn Al-Asnam a mirror called the touch-stone of virtue, which Zayn Al-Asnam uses to discover whether the damsel he chooses is chaste. After a long search, the daughter of a Wazir turns out not only to be beautiful and virtuous, but also a prize by the Jinn to Zayn Al-Asnam as his wife.
Source Zayn Al-Asnam – Public Domain Super Heroes Wiki
The Thousand and One Nights (1912) | William Harvey
The Thousand and One Nights (1912) | William Harvey