Sinbad the Sailor (/ˈsɪnbæd/; Arabic: السندباد
البحري‎, romanized: as-SindibÄ du al-Baḥriyy; or Sindbad) is
a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern
origin. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early
Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven
voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has
fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and
witnessing supernatural phenomena.The tales of Sinbad are a relatively
late addition to the One Thousand and One Nights â€" they do not
feature in the earliest 14th-century manuscript, and they appear as an
independent cycle in 17th- and 18th-century collections. Traceable
influences include the Homeric epics (long familiar in the
Arabic-speaking world, having been translated into that language as
early as the 8th century A.D., at the court of the Caliph al-Mahdi),
Pseudo-Callisthenes's "Life of Alexander" from the late 3rd/early 4th
century A.D. via the 9th century "Book of Animals" of al-Jahiz, and,
even earlier, in the ancient Egyptian "Tale of the Shipwrecked
Sailor". Later sources include Abbasid works such the "Wonders of the
Created World", reflecting the experiences of 13th century Arab
mariners who braved the Indian Ocean.The Sinbad cycle is set in the
reign of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786â€"809). The Sinbad
tales are included in the first European translation of the Nights,
Galland's Les Mille et une nuits, contes arabes traduits en français,
an English edition of which appeared in 1711 as The new Arabian winter
nights entertainments and went through numerous editions throughout
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