In the Great Khan’s Tent
by Saif Beg
In the Great Khan’s Tent hosted by Saif Beg is a bi-weekly episodic narrative Podcast focusing on the History, Literature, and Folk Literature from the regions of the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia including Mongolia and the Russian Far East, and South Asia. In our ongoing series of ”In the Great Khan’s Tent” I will be narrating “The Thousand and One Nights” or commonly referred to as the “Arabian Nights”. Interspersed within this series will be our focus on the history of the above mentioned regions, interviews, and discussions on many facets that I am sure our listeners would enjoy.
Episodes
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 36: The Arabian Nights Part 33
Welcome back to In The Great Khan's Tent from our two-month long but necessary hiatus! We are back with even more episodes, more stories, and more content for you to enjoy! So stay tuned for even more episodes! In this episode, we continue our exploration of the story of “The Story of Sultan…
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In The Great Khan's Tent Two Year Anniversary Special Episode 1
Welcome to the 2nd year anniversary of the In The Great Khan’s Tent Podcast! It has been 2 glorious and wonderful years providing you with educational, informative, and entertaining content on this podcast! I would like to thank all of our listeners, supporters, and well wishers for coming along…
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 35: The Arabian Nights Part 33
In this episode, we continue our exploration of the One Thousand and One Nights with the continuation of the story of “The Story of Sultan ‘Umar ibn al-Nu’man and his sons Sharkhan and Dau’ al-Makan and the strange and remarkable things that happened to them” with the continuation of Night 50 and...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Tales from the Far East Episode 1
Welcome to a new special series In The Great Khan’s Tent! In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Tales for the Far East focuses on the tales from the Far East, also known as the Russian Colonized Far East, from the region of Siberia all the way east to the Pacific Ocean. In this episode we focus on…
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 34: The Arabian Nights Part 32
In The episode, we continue the epic tale of “The Story of Sultan Umar ibn al-Nu’man and his sons Sharkhan and Dau’ al-Makan and the strange and remarkable things that happened to them” with Nights 49 and 50. We continue with our exploration of the adventure of Sharkhan, our heroic prince, who in...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 33: The Arabian Nights Part 31
In this episode, we continue the story “The Story of Sultan Umar ibn al-Nu’man and his sons Sharkhan and Dau’ al-Makan and the Strange and Remarkable things that happened to them” with Nights 47 and 48. After leaving the army in the valley and going to a reconnaissance mission by himself, he…
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 32: The Arabian Nights Part 30
In this episode, we reach the exciting conclusion of the story of “The Story of Ghanim, the son of Ayyub, the Distracted Slave of Love” with Nights 44 and 45. We then begin a thrilling and exciting epic story, one of many within the One Thousand and One Nights, titled “The Story of Sultan Umar...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Tales From Central Asia Episode 4
Announcing our Merchandise Store has now opened! In this episode, we conclude our first special series "In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Tales from Central Asia" with Episode 4 focusing on tales from the Azerbaijani, Kyrgyz, and Kazakh ethnic groups. The first two stories that are told are the...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 31: The Arabian Nights Part 29
This episode marks two important milestones that we have reached here at In The Great Khan’s Tent! Firstly this is the 40th episode we have reached! Secondly, we have reached 2,000 all time downloads! Both could not have happened without the support of our listeners, our supporters, and those who...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 30: The Arabian Nights Part 28
In this episode, we continue our exciting exploration of the One Thousand and One Nights, with the story of “The Story of Ghanim the son of Ayyub, the Distracted Slave of Love” with Nights 40 and 41. We are first told the story of the first slave, Buhkait, and how he eventually found himself...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Ramadan/Ramzan Special Episode Part 2
Welcome to In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Ramadan or Ramzan, if you prefer, Special Episode Part 2! In our final special episode for this holy month of Ramadan, we delve into two tales of lesser known and uniquely Arab, Prophets, Salih (A.S.) who was sent to the people of Thamud, located in...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Ramadan/Ramzan Special Episode Part 1
Welcome to In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Ramadan or Ramzan, if you prefer, Special Episode Part 1! In this special episode we will examine the oral and written narratives pertaining to Islam, in particular focusing on some of the lesser known Prophets mentioned in the Qur’an including the...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 29: The Arabian Nights Part 27
In this episode, we continue with our exploration of the One Thousand and One Nights, with the exciting conclusion of the story of “The Story of Nur-ud-din and Anis al-Jalis” with Night 38 and begin a new story, “The Story of Ghanim the son of Ayyub, the Distracted Slave of Love” with Night 39.…
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In The Great Khan's Tent Presents: Tales from Central Asia Episode 3
In this episode, we continue with our on-going series titled “Tales from Central Asia” by looking at four different tales from four different ethnic groups. The first story that is told is from the Turkmen ethnic group titled “A Mountain of Gems”. The second story that is told is from the Uzbek...
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In The Great Khan's Tent Episode 28: The Arabian Nights Part 26
In this episode, we continue “The Story of Nur-ud-din and Anis al-Jalis” with Night 37. As mentioned before, we again encounter the three historical characters of Harun al-Rashid, Jafar al-Barmaki, and Mansur. There is a marked difference in how the relationship between Harun al-Rashid and Jafar...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode 27: The Arabian Nights Part 25
In this episode, we continue “The Story of Nur-ud-din and Anis al-Jalis” with Night 36. Once again, this is another sort of morality tale warning about the wasteful spending with unreliable people or hangers on who are just there for spending a persons wealth, as in the case of Nur-ud-din, but…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode 26: The Arabian Nights Part 24
In this episode, we continue our One Thousand and One Nights narration, with the finale of “The Case of the Tailor, The Hunchback or Humpback, the Jew, the Inspector, and the Christian” or known as “The story of the Humpback” with Night 34. This has been a long tale first begun during Night 25…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Tales from Central Asia Episode 2
In this episode, we continue with the story of “Tsarkin Khan and the Archer”, the Kalmyk Mongol tale. In our last episode, we met the anonymous Archer who spotted three Gold Cranes who turned into beautiful ladies. He hid the feathers of one and gave them back to her. As a result, they married…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode 25: The Arabian Nights Part 23
In this episode, we continue the story of “The Story of the Tailor” with Night 32 and the story of the “The Barber’s Story of his Fifth Brother” and go on to Night 33 and the story of the “The Barber’s Story of his Sixth Brother”. Both of these brothers are seemingly different that what has been...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode 24: The Arabian Nights Part 22
In this episode, we continue the story of “The Barber’s Story of his First Brother” in Night 31 and begin the story of “The Barber’s Story of his Second Brother” and then move on to the story of “The Barber’s Story of his Third Brother” and “The Barber’s Story of his Fourth Brother” in Night 32.…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode 23: The Arabian Nights Part 21
Thank you to Thematic for sponsoring this episode! In this episode, we continue the story “The Story of the Tailor” in Night 30 and begin the story of “The Barber’s Story of Himself” and “The Barber’s Story of his First Brother” in Night 31. As you go through this story, which is hilarious due to...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: Tales from Central Asia Episode 1
Thank you to Thematic for sponsoring this episode! In this Episode, we begin our new series which will be ongoing parallel to the current One Thousand and One Nights series we are going through, Tales from Central Asia! We begin with a tale from the Bashkir tribe, the story of “Altyn-Saka the...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent One Year Special Episode II
In The Great Khan’s Tent is now a year old! We would like to firstly thank all of our listeners and supporters for accompanying us on our mission so far and hope that you are pleased by our offerings that we strive to provide you. Please stick around and support us as we reach new and better...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent One Year Special Episode I
In The Great Khan’s Tent is now a year old! We would like to firstly thank all of our listeners for helping us with our journey so far and hope you are pleased by our offerings so far and plan to stick around as we reach new and better heights while bringing you the same quality of educational,...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XXII: The Arabian Nights Part XX
In this Episode, we conclude the story “The Story told by the Jewish Physician” continuing with Night XXVIII and begin the story “The Story told by the Tailor” in Night XXIX and Night XXX. I will have to say at the outset that the story told by the Tailor and the character of the Barber which...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XXI: The Arabian Nights Part XIX
In this Episode, we conclude the story “The Story told by the Sultan’s Steward” with Night XXVIII and beginning the story “The Story told by the Jewish Physician”. Once again, in a similar vein to the stories told in this cycle, the main character for the story told by the Jewish Physician is a...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XX: The Arabian Nights Part XVIII
In this Episode, we conclude the story “The Story told by the by the Christian Broker” with Night XXVI and in Night XXVII we begin the story “The Story told by the Sultan’s Steward”. The story told by the Christian broker was in essence a sad one. Although he does gain his wealth back and more by...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XIX: The Arabian Nights Part XVII
In This Episode we have concluded the story of “The Story of Nur-ud-din Ali and his Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter” with Night XXIV and beginning a new story, “The Case of the Tailor, The Hunchback or Humpback, the Jew, the Inspector, and the Christian” or known as “The story…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XVIII: The Arabian Nights Part XVI
In this Episode we are reaching the conclusion of the story of “The Story of Nur-ud-din Ali and his Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter” continuing with Night XXIII and going into Night XXIV. In this night we see that Shams-ud-din Mohammad, his daughter Sitt al-Husn, and his…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XVII: The Arabian Nights Part XV
Welcome back to In The Great Khan’s Tent and our continuing series on the One Thousand and One Nights also known as the Arabian Nights. To recap, we had begun the story of “The Story of Nur-ud-din Ali and his Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter” where Hasan Badr-ud-din, whose father...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: The Later Mughals Episode II
In this episode of In The Great Khan’s Tent Presents: The Later Mughals we continue with the struggle of the three sons of Aurangzeb, this time focusing on the two strongest candidates, Bahadur Shah and Azim Shah and the beginning of the culmination of this conflict with the start of the battle…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Present: The Later Mughals Episode I
Welcome to a new series from In The Great Khan’s Tent! Fear not listeners! We will be continuing the One Thousand and One Nights shortly but wanted to take this podcast in a new direction under our directive to educate people. What better way to do that than to look at one of the overlooked areas...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XVI: The Arabian Nights Part XIV
In this episode, we continue “The Story of Nur-ud-din Ali and his Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter” with Nights XXI and XXII. In this part, unlike in other tales told, we see here believing Jinns directly facilitate the story by transporting Hasan Badr-ud-din, the son of…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XV: The Arabian Nights Part XIII
In this episode, we continue “The Story of Nur-ed-din Ali and His Son and of Shams-ud-din Mohammad and his Daughter”. We see here, for the first time, actual geographical destinations that do correspond in actuality to the location where Nur-ed-din begins his journey in Cario, going to Bilbais,...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XIV: The Arabian Nights Part XII
In this episode, we end the story cycle of the “The Porter, the Three Ladies of Baghdad, and the three Dervishes” with Night XIX and begin another story cycle “The Story of the Three Apples” with Night XX. Within the “Three Apples” cycle we start “The Story of Nur-ed-din Ali and His Son and of...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XIII: The Arabian Nights Part XI
In this episode, we end “The Story of the First of the Three Ladies of Baghdad” and move on to “The Story of the Second of the Three Ladies of Baghdad” with the continuation of Night XVII and Night XVIII. We once again encounter two Jinn, the main dealings are with the Jinniyah with the other…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XII: The Arabian Nights Part X
In this episode, we finally end the story of “The Third Royal Dervish” and begin the final round of tales with the “The Story of the First of the Three Ladies of Baghdad” continuing with Night XVI and going into Night XVII. We again encounter the prospect of being lost at sea and winding up in an...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode XI: The Arabian Nights Part IX
In this episode, we begin the story of “The Third Royal Dervish” with Night XV and Night XVI. Note that the Third Royal Dervish is the first instance we encounter of a hero who enjoys sailing, owns ships, and is subsequently shipwrecked. This clearly shows that the fundamental ideas that were to…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode X: Special Episode II
In this series of special episodes, I hope to highlight the historical background for the One Thousand and One Nights, by examining the history of the work, where the text drew its inspiration from, the original manuscripts, translators and translations, and how it found a new iteration in...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode IX:The Arabian Nights Part VIII
In this episode we continue the story of “The Second Royal Dervish” in the continuation of Night XIII and part of Night XIV. Within this story is a nested tale of “The Story of the Envier and the Envied” which provides a moral tale for those who are envious. Within the story of “The Second Royal...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VIII: The Arabian Nights Part VII
In this episode, we continue the story of “The First Royal Dervish” in the continuation of Night XI, Night XII, and part of Night XIII. We also hear part of the story of “The Second Royal Dervish” and encounter the Jinn once again. However, unlike previous episodes this time the Jinn is named,...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VII: The Arabian Nights Part VI
In this episode, we continue with the story of “The Porter, The Three Ladies of Baghdad, and the Three Dervishes: with Night IX, Night X, and the beginning of Night XI. We also begin to learn more about the three Dervishes with the beginning of the first Dervish’s story “The Story of the First...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode VI: The Arabian Nights Part V
In this episode, we finally reach the end of the story of the Fisherman and the Jinn with Night VIII and Night IX. Within Night IX, we also begin one of the popular stories in the Arabian Nights, that of “The Porter, The Three Ladies of Baghdad, and The Three Dervishes”. Here we also encounter…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode V: Special Episode I
In this series of special episodes, I hope to highlight the historical background for the One Thousand and One Nights, by examining the history of the work, the original manuscripts, translators and translations, and how it found a new iteration in Children's Literature. In this episode I focus…
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In the Great Khan’s Tent Episode IV: The Arabian Nights Part IV
In this episode, the story of the Fisherman and the Jinn in Nights V, VI, VII is continued and the beginning of Night VIII and again we encounter evidence of a story that is not told, this time said by the Jinn to the Fisherman, that of “Umameh and ‘Atikeh”. We also introduced to the story of the...
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode III: The Arabian Nights Part III
In this episode, we continue with Nights III, Night IV and the middle of Night V. There are certain things which are different in this episode as compared to the last. One of the most important things to note here is that this is one of the first instance of a tale which we do not encounter…
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In The Great Khan’s Tent Episode II: The Arabian Nights Part II
In this episode we look at the beginning of the Thousand and One Nights with Night I and Night II with the story of the Merchant and the Jinn. Note the role that the Jinn play in these tales and how the structure of the narrative is formed. We also look at the beginning of Night III with the...
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In the Great Khans Tent Episode I: The Arabian Nights Part I
In this series of In the Great Khan’s Tent I will be reading “The Thousand and One Nights” or commonly referred to as the “Arabian Nights”. Two translations will be used as the basis of this podcast, the four volume “The Thousand on One Nights: The Arabian Nights Entertainment” translated by…
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About this show
In the Great Khan’s Tent hosted by Saif Beg is a bi-weekly episodic narrative Podcast focusing on the History, Literature, and Folk Literature from the regions of the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia including Mongolia and the Russian Far East, and South Asia.
In our ongoing series of ”In the Great Khan’s Tent” I will be narrating “The Thousand and One Nights” or commonly referred to as the “Arabian Nights”. Interspersed within this series will be our focus on the history of the above mentioned regions, interviews, and discussions on many facets that I am sure our listeners would enjoy.
Hosted by
Saif Beg