Works from the Western Canon Addressing the Middle East

Boccaccio's Decameron (1350), 10th Day, Ninth Story (Decameron Web, Brown University) Background reading: "Saladin" in Wikipedia

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1400) from "Man of Lawes Tale" (Lawyer's Tale) ll. 1-380 (Electronic Literature Foundation has versions in Middle English and Modern Translation)

Shakespeare's Othello (1603), Act I-III, MIT On-Line Version

[Resource for Othello: "Turning Turk in Othello: The Conversion and Damnation of the Moor" by Daniel Vitkus (Shakespeare Quarterly)]

"Kubla Khan" by Coleridge (1816)

"Ozymandias" by Shelly (movie version!) (1818)

The Thousand Nights and a Night translated in 1885 by Richard Burton at the Etext Library, 1001 Nights Bartleby Lane Translation This work has become apropriated to the Western Canon. Background, Wikipedia on 1001 Nights, "History and Literary Significance of 1001 Nights," by Daniel Beaumont

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Elf Version with Dulac / Pogany Illustrations (Tranlated by Edward Fitzgerald, 1859-89)

"Orientalism" from Wikipedia