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• ix • Editor's Note (Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• [xii] •  The World of the Arabian Nights (map) • interior artwork by Jeanne Gomoll
• 1 • Tales Told at Ramadan (introduction to The Tale of the Djinni and the Sisters) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 6 • The Tale of the Djinni and the Sisters • (1988) • short story by Larry Niven (variant of The Tale of the Jinni and the Sisters)
• 20 • The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (And What Came of It) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 42 • Foolish, Wicked, Clever and Kind • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 73 • The Caravan's Tales (introduction to Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 76 • Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni • short story by Jane Yolen
• 82 • An Eye for the Ladies • short story by Esther M. Friesner
• 101 • Truthseeker • short story by Nancy Springer
• 117 • Toward the Realm of Jade (introduction to The Dowry of the Rag Picker's Daughter) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 121 • The Dowry of the Rag Picker's Daughter • novelette by Andre Norton
• 136 • Kehailan • short story by Judith Tarr
• 155 • The Elephant In-Law • short story by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough [as by Elizabeth Scarborough]
• 173 • Tales of the Mongol's Guards (introduction to The King Who Was Summoned to Damascus) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 177 • The King Who Was Summoned to Damascus • short story by Melissa Scott
• 196 • The Truthsayer • short story by William R. Forstchen
• 214 • The Banner of Kaviyan • short story by Harry Turtledove
• 233 • The Consolations of Philosophy (introduction to The Lovesick Simurgh) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 236 • The Lovesick Simurgh • short story by M. J. Engh
• 245 • Afterword: Ramadan, Again (Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights) • essay by Susan Shwartz
• 251 • To Learn More About the World of The Arabian Nights (Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights) • essay by Sandra Miesel
• 255 • About the Authors (Arabesques: More Tales of the Arabian Nights) • essay by M. J. Engh and William R. Forstchen and Esther M. Friesner and Tanith Lee and Sandra Miesel and Larry Niven and Andre Norton and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and Melissa Scott and Susan Shwartz and Nancy Springer and Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove and Gene Wolfe and Jane Yolen (variant of About the Authors (Arabesques)) [as by uncredited]