A young merchant lies confined among the madmen of Baghdad's great hospital — and he is as sane as you are. When the caliph, wandering his city in disguise, sits down to hear how he came there, the tale that unfolds begins with five hundred piastres of fine cloth, a lady who would not give her name, and a marriage behind seven doors — a marriage whose door opens only one day in the year. The Bimaristan — Part One of Two.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Fresh in-house English rendering from Caussin de Perceval's continuation of Les mille et une nuits (Le Normant, 1806).
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