Richard van Leeuwen teaches at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the Thousand and One Nights and his translation of the work directly from the Arabic is widely regarded as the authoritative Dutch translation.|Dr Arnoud Vrolijk is Interpres Legati Warneriani and curator of Oriental manuscripts and rare books at Leiden University Libraries. He has published extensively on the Leiden Oriental collections and the history of Arabic scholarship in the Netherlands.

• Preface, Introduction, 1. The Thousand and one nights and literary Orientalism in Europe, 2. Dutch Orientalism before 1700, 3. Antoine Galland and Ghisbert Cuper, 4. The early editions of the Nights, 5. Gilbert de Flines, 6. Later editions in the eighteenth century, 7. Dutch Orientalism in the eighteenth century, Conclusion, Appendices, Bibliography, Index, Colophon