The Seven Voyages of Sindbad
- Date of account
- Medieval Arabic literary cycle; circulated in manuscripts before 1800
- Location
- Basra, Indian Ocean and imagined maritime geographies
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Sindbad the Sailor recounts a merchant’s seven extraordinary voyages from a Basra-centered world into seas populated by giant birds, enormous serpents, cannibalistic or strange peoples and deceptive islands. The stories draw on travel literature, seafaring knowledge and inherited wonder-tale motifs, while their exact textual history within The Thousand and One Nights is complex. The cycle is valuable for comparing maritime legend, trade-route imagination and monstrous geography. Its creatures should be treated as narrative and symbolic constructions, not as reports of verified animals or actual islands.
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