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Embracing Heroes of the Past, Warts and All
- Culture, Featured, History, Religion, Western Civilization
- March 10, 2026

Think invisible men, time travel, flying machines and journeys to other planets are the product of the European or ‘Western’ imagination? Open One Thousand and One Nights – a collection of folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age, from the 8th to the 13th centuries CE – and you will find it stuffed full
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