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Sinbad the Sailor (also spelled Sindbad; Persian
Persian language

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 ?????? Sendbad; Arabic ???????? ?????? as-Sindibad al-Ba?ri) is a story-cycle of ancient Middle Eastern origin. Sinbad is a Persian word hinting at a Persian
Persian

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 origin. In fact some scholars believe that the book of Sindbad, as such, was originally compiled in Sassanid Persia, in the Middle Persian
Middle Persian

Middle Persian is the Iranian languages language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well....
 language, and that while it is not a translation of a pre-existing Sanskrit
Sanskrit

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 work, its author was familiar with India
India

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n narrative and nomic works, presumably in Middle Persian
Middle Persian

Middle Persian is the Iranian languages language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well....
 translations.






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Sinbad the Sailor (also spelled Sindbad; Persian
Persian language

name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
 ?????? Sendbad; Arabic ???????? ?????? as-Sindibad al-Ba?ri) is a story-cycle of ancient Middle Eastern origin. Sinbad is a Persian word hinting at a Persian
Persian

Persian is of, from, or related to Iran , a country in the Middle East.* Persian people, an Iranian peoples ethno-linguistic community in Central and Southwest Asia....
 origin. In fact some scholars believe that the book of Sindbad, as such, was originally compiled in Sassanid Persia, in the Middle Persian
Middle Persian

Middle Persian is the Iranian languages language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well....
 language, and that while it is not a translation of a pre-existing Sanskrit
Sanskrit

Sanskrit is a historical Indo-Aryan language, one of the liturgical languages of Hinduism and Buddhism, and one of the 22 official languages of India....
 work, its author was familiar with India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n narrative and nomic works, presumably in Middle Persian
Middle Persian

Middle Persian is the Iranian languages language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well....
 translations. The oldest texts of the cycle are however in Arabic, and no ancient or medieval Persian version has survived. A variation of the name, Smbat, can also be found in Armenia
Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in South Caucasus between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea....
, as well as the version Lempad of his father's name Lambad.

Sinbad, the hero of the stories, is a sailor
Sailor

A sailor or mariner is a person who navigates ships or assists in their operation, maintenance, or service. The term can apply to professional mariners, military personnel, and recreational sailors as well as a plethora of other uses....
 from Basrah, living during the Abbasid
Abbasid

The Abbasid Caliphate was the third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The Caliphate is one of the high points of Islam, and at the time Muslim civilization, together with that of Byzantium, China and India, was the most developed part of the world....
 Caliphate
Caliphate

The caliphate represented the political leadership of the Muslim ummah in classical and medieval Islamic history and juristic theory. The head of state's position is based on the notion of a successor to the Prophets of Islam Muhammad's political authority....
. The stories themselves are based partly on real experiences of sailors around the Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering about 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by Asia ; on the west by Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean ....
, partly on ancient poetry (including Homer
Homer

Homer is traditionally held to be the author of the ancient Greek language epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, as well as of the Homeric Hymns....
's Odyssey
Odyssey

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Hellenic civilization epic poetrys attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer....
 and Vishnu Sarma
Vishnu Sarma

Vishnu Sarma was the author of the anthropomorphic political treatise called Panchatantra.Vishnu Sarma lived in Varanasi in the 3rd century BC....
's Panchatantra
Panchatantra

The Panchatantra or Tantrakhyayika also known in other cultures as Kalileh o Demneh or Anvar-e Soheyli or Kalilag and Damnag or Kalilah wa Dimnah or Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai or The Morall Philosophie of Doni was originally a canon...
), and partly upon Arab
Arab

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, India
India

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n and Persian
Persian Empire

The 'Persian Empire' was a series of successive Iranian or Persianization empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland, and beyond in Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia and the Caucasus....
 collections of mirabilia. They recount the fantastic adventures of Sinbad during his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
 and south of Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
.

The collection is tale 133 in Volume 6 of Sir Richard Burton
Richard Francis Burton

Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton Order of St Michael and St George Royal Geographic Society was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguistics, poet, hypnotism, fencing and diplomat....
's translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights , is a collection of folk tales and other stories. The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on India elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East an...
 (Arabian Nights). This remains the classic translation in English
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 (famed as much for Burton's footnotes as for the tales themselves), but modern readers are perhaps more familiar with abridged versions produced for a more juvenile audience. While Burton and other Western translators have grouped the Sinbad stories within the tales of Scheherazade
Scheherazade

Scheherazade , sometimes Scheherazadea, Persian transliteration Shahrazad or Shahrzad , is a legendary Persian Empire queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights....
 in the Arabian Nights, its origin appears to have been quite independent from that story cycle and modern translations by Arab scholars often do not include the stories of Sinbad or several other of the Arabian Nights that have become familiar to Western audiences.

The tales


Sinbad the Porter and Sinbad the Sailor

Like the 1001 Nights the Sinbad story-cycle has a frame story
Frame story

A frame story is a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story....
, which goes as follows: in the days of Haroun al-Rashid, Caliph
Caliph

The Caliph is the head of state in a Caliphate, and the title for the leader of the Islamic Ummah, an Islamic community ruled by the Shari'ah....
 of Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
, a poor porter (one who carries goods for others in the market and throughout the city) pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house, where he complains to Allah
Allah

Allah is the standard Arabic language word for God. While the term is best known in the Western world for its use by Muslims as a reference to God, it is used by Arabic-speakers of all Abrahamic faiths, including Christians and Jews, in reference to "God"....
 about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor. The owner of the house hears, and sends for the porter, and it is found they are both named Sinbad. The rich Sinbad tells the poor Sinbad that he became wealthy, "by Fortune and Fate", in the course of seven wondrous voyages, which he then proceeds to relate.

The First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

After dissipating the wealth left to him by his father, Sinbad goes to sea to repair his fortune. He sets ashore on what appears to be an island, but this island proves to be a gigantic fish on which trees have taken root. The fish dives into the depths, the ship departs without Sinbad, and Sinbad is saved by the chance of a passing barrel sent by the grace of Allah. He is washed ashore on an island, where the king befriends him and appoints him harbour-master. One day Sinbad's own ship arrives in port, and he reclaims his goods (still in the ship's hold). The king makes him rich presents, and he returns to Baghdad where he resumes a life of ease and pleasure. With the ending of the tale, Sinbad the sailor makes Sinbad the porter a gift of a hundred gold pieces, and bids him return the next day to hear more about his adventures.

The Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

On the second day of Sinbad's tale-telling - but the 549th night of Scheherazade's, for she has been breaking her tale each morning in order to tease the interest of the homicidal king - Sinbad the sailor tells how he grew restless of his life of leisure, and set to sea again, "possessed with the thought of travelling about the world of men and seeing their cities and islands." Accidentally abandoned by his shipmates, he finds himself stranded in an inaccessible valley of giant snakes and even more gigantic birds, the rocs, which prey upon them. The floor of the valley is carpeted with diamonds, and merchants harvest these by throwing huge chunks of meat into the valley which the birds then carry back to their nests, where the men drive them away and collect the diamonds stuck to the meat. The wily Sinbad straps one of the pieces of meat to his back and is carried back to the nest along with a large sack full of precious gems. Rescued from the nest by the merchants, he returns to Baghdad
Baghdad

Baghdad is the Capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate, with which it is also coterminous. With a municipal population estimated at 6.5 million, it is the largest city in Iraq, and the second largest city in the Arab World....
 with a fortune in diamonds, seeing many marvels along the way.

The Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

Restless for travel and adventure, Sinbad sets sail again from Basra. But by ill chance he and his companions are cast up on an island where they are captured by "a huge creature in the likeness of a man, black of colour, ... with eyes like coals of fire and eye-teeth like boar's tusks and a vast big gape like the mouth of a well. Moreover, he had long loose lips like camel's, hanging down upon his breast and ears like two Jarms falling over his shoulder-blades and the nails of his hands were like the claws of a lion". This monster begins eating the crew, beginning with the Master, who is the fattest. (Burton notes that the giant "is distinctly Polyphemus
Polyphemus

Polyphemus , the gigantic one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa, is a character in Greek mythology, one of the Cyclops. His name means "famous". Polyphemus plays a pivotal role in Homer's Odyssey....
").

Sinbad hatches a plan to blind the giant with the red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing the ship's company, and so he and the remaining men escape. After further adventures (including a gigantic python from which Sinbad escapes thanks to his quick wits), he returns to Baghdad, wealthier than ever, where "I gave alms and largesse and clad the widow and the orphan, by way of thanksgiving for my happy return, and fell to feasting and making merry with my companions and intimates and forgot, while eating well and drinking well and dressing well, everything that had befallen me and all the perils and hardships I had suffered".

The Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

Impelled by restlessness Sinbad takes to the seas again, and, as usual, is shipwrecked. The naked savages amongst whom he finds himself feed his companions a herb which robs them of their reason, (Burton theorises that this might be bhang
Bhang

Bhang is preparation from the leaves and flowers of the female Cannabis, consumed in the Indian subcontinent. It is consumed either as a beverage or smoked....
), prior to fattening them for the table. Sinbad refuses to eat the madness-inducing plant, and, when the cannibals have lost interest in him, escapes. A party of itinerant pepper-gatherers transports him to their own island, where their king befriends him and gives him a beautiful and wealthy wife.

Too late Sinbad learns of a peculiar custom of the land: on the death of one marriage partner, the other is entombed alive with his or her spouse, both in their finest clothes and most costly jewels. Sinbad's wife falls ill and dies soon after, leaving Sinbad trapped in an underground cavern, a communal tomb, with a jug of water and seven pieces of bread. Just as these meagre supplies are almost exhausted, another couple - the husband dead, the wife alive - are dropped into the cavern. Sinbad bludgeons the wife to death and takes her rations.

Such episodes continue; soon he has a sizable store of bread and water, as well as the gold and gems from the corpses, but is still unable to escape, until one day a wild animal shows him a passage to the outside, high above the sea. From here a passing ship rescues him and carries him back to Baghdad, where he gives alms to the poor and resumes his life of pleasure. (Burton's footnote comments: "This tale is evidently taken from the escape of Aristomenes
Aristomenes

Aristomenes was a king of Messenia, celebrated for his struggle with the Spartans, and his resistance to them on Mount Ira for 11 years. At length the mountain fell to the enemy, while he escaped and was snatched up by the gods; he died at Rhodes....
 the Messenia
Messenia

Messenia or Messinia is a prefectures of Greece in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the south by the Gulf of Messenia....
n from the pit into which he had been thrown, a fox being his guide. The Arab
Arab

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s in an early day were eager students of Greek literature
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").

The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

"When I had been a while on shore after my fourth voyage; and when, in my comfort and pleasures and merry-makings and in my rejoicing over my large gains and profits, I had forgotten all I had endured of perils and sufferings, the carnal man was again seized with the longing to travel and to see foreign countries and islands." Soon at sea once more, while passing a desert island Sinbad's crew spots a gigantic egg that Sinbad recognizes as belonging to a roc. Out of curiosity the ship's passengers disembark to view the egg, only to end up breaking it and having the chick inside as a meal. Sinbad immediately recognizes the folly of their behavior and orders all back aboard ship.

However, the infuriated parent rocs soon catch up with the vessel and destroy it by dropping giant boulders they have carried in their talons. Shipwrecked yet again, Sinbad is enslaved by the Old Man of the Sea
Old Man of the Sea

In Greek mythology, the Old Man of the Sea was a primordial figure who could be identified by several names, Proteus or Nereus or Pontus . There is evidence in the Iliad, Book I, line 588 , that he is the father of Thetis, mother of Achilles....
, who rides on his shoulders with his legs twisted round Sinbad's neck and will not let go, riding him both day and night until Sinbad would welcome death. (Burton's footnote discusses possible origins for the old man - the orang-utan, the Greek
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
 triton
Triton (mythology)

Triton is a mythological Greek mythology, the messenger of the deep. He is the son of Poseidon, god of the sea, and Amphitrite, goddess of the sea....
 - and favours the African custom of riding on slaves in this way).

Eventually, Sinbad makes wine and tricks the Old Man into drinking some, then Sinbad kills him after he has fallen off and escapes. A ship carries him to the City of the Apes, a place whose inhabitants spend each night in boats off-shore, while their town is abandoned to man-eating apes. Yet through the apes Sinbad recoups his fortune, and so eventually finds a ship which takes him home once more to Baghdad.

The Sixth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

"My soul yearned for travel and traffic". Sinbad is shipwrecked yet again, this time quite violently as his ship is dashed to pieces on tall cliffs. There is no food to be had anywhere, and Sinbad's companions die of starvation until only he is left. He builds a raft and discovers a river running out of a cavern beneath the cliffs. The stream proves to be filled with precious stones and becomes apparent that the island's streams flow with ambergris
Ambergris

Ambergris is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray or blackish color produced in the digestive system of sperm whales.Ambergris has a peculiar sweet, earthy odor....
. He falls asleep as he journeys through the darkness and awakens in the city of the king of Serendib
Serendib

Serendib may refer to:*Serendib, the old Arabic/Persian language name for Sri Lanka*Serendib , a spider genus ...
 (Ceylon, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
), "diamonds are in its rivers and pearls are in its valleys". The king marvels at what Sinbad tells him of the great Haroun al-Rashid, and asks that he take a present back to Baghdad on his behalf, a cup carved from a single ruby, with other gifts including a bed made from the skin of the serpent that swallowed the elephant ("and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth"), and "a hundred thousand miskals of India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
 lign-aloesa", and a slave-girl "like a shining moon". And so Sinbad returns to Baghdad, where the Caliph wonders greatly at the reports Sinbad gives of the land of Ceylon.

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor

The ever-restless Sinbad sets sail once more, with the usual result. Cast up on a desolate shore, Sinbad makes a raft and floats down a nearby river to a great city. Here the chief of the merchants weds Sinbad to his daughter, names him his heir, and conveniently dies. The inhabitants of this city are transformed once a month into birds, and Sinbad has one of the bird-people carry him to the uppermost reaches of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifying God, "whereat I wondered and exclaimed, "Praised be Allah! Extolled be the perfection of Allah!" But no sooner are the words out than there comes fire from heaven which all but consumes the bird-men. The bird-people are angry with Sinbad and set him down on a mountain-top, where he meets two youths who are the servants of Allah and who give him a golden staff; returning to the city, Sinbad learns from his wife that the bird-men are devils, although she and her father are not of their number. And so, at his wife's suggestion, Sinbad sells all his possessions and returns with her to Baghdad, where at last he resolves to live quietly in the enjoyment of his wealth, and to seek no more adventures.

(Burton includes a variant of the seventh tale, in which Sinbad is asked by Haroun al-Rashid to carry a return gift to the king of Serendib. Sinbad replies, "By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble". He then tells the Caliph of his misfortunate voyages; Haroun agrees that with such a history "thou dost only right never even to talk of travel". Nevertheless, a command of the Caliph is not to be gainsayed, and Sinbad sets forth on this, his uniquely diplomatic voyage. The king of Serendip is well pleased with the Caliph's gifts (which include, inter alia, the food tray of King Solomon) and showers Sinbad with his favour. On the return voyage the usual catastrophe strikes: Sinbad is captured and sold into slavery. His master sets him to shooting elephants with a bow and arrow, which he does until the king of the elephants carries him off to the elephants' graveyard. Sinbad's master is so pleased with the huge quantities of ivory in the graveyard that he sets Sinbad free, and Sinbad returns to Baghdad, rich with ivory and gold. "Here I went in to the Caliph and, after saluting him and kissing hands, informed him of all that had befallen me; whereupon he rejoiced in my safety and thanked Almighty Allah; and he made my story be written in letters of gold. I then entered my house and met my family and brethren: and such is the end of the history that happened to me during my seven voyages. Praise be to Allah, the One, the Creator, the Maker of all things in Heaven and Earth!").

In some versions we return to the frame story - sometimes Sinbad the Porter receives a final generous gift from Sinbad the Sailor. In other versions the story cycle ends here - and there is no further mention of Sinbad the Porter.

Sinbad in popular culture

Sinbad's quasi-iconic status in Western culture has led to his name being appropriated for a wide range of uses in both serious and not-so-serious contexts, frequently with only a tenuous connection to the original tales.

Films, TV, animation

Many film
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s, television
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 series, animated cartoons
Animation

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, novel
Novel

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s, and video games have been made, featuring Sinbad not as a merchant who happens to stumble into adventures, but as a dashing dare-devil adventure-seeker.
  • Sinbad the Sailor
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    Sinbad the Sailor was a 1935 animated short film produced by the well-known Ub Iwerks of Walt Disney Pictures....
     (1935) - animated short
  • Sinbad (1936)
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
    Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor

    Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor is a two-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Popeye series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on November 27 1936 by Paramount Pictures....
     (1936) - In this Popeye
    Popeye

    File:Thimbletheat.jpgPopeye the Sailor is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows....
     cartoon, Sindbad is an antagonist and bears a strong resemblance to Bluto
    Bluto

    Bluto is a cartoon character created in 1932 by Elzie Crisler Segar as a one-time character, named "Bluto the Terrible", in his Thimble Theatre comic strip ; he made his first appearance September 12 of that year....
    .
  • Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
    Sinbad the Sailor (1947 film)

    Sinbad the Sailor is a 1947 in film fantasy film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, and Walter Slezak. It tells the tale of the "eighth" voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, wherein he discovers the lost treasure of Alexander the Great....
     (1947)
  • Arabian Nights - The Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor: The Adventure Continues - The Return of Jafar and the King of Thieves
    Aladdin (1992 film)

    Aladdin is a Animation produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 25, 1992. The thirty-first animated feature in the List of Disney theatrical animated features, the film is based on the Arab folktale of Aladdin from One Thousand and One Nights....
     (1990) by Walt Disney Pictures - Television International Animation/Silver Screen Partners IV/The Walt Disney Studios - Feature Animation
  • Sadko (film)
    Sadko (film)

    Sadko is a 1953 Russian fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. The film is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian bylina with the same name, and scored with Rimsky-Korsakov's music from the opera....
     (1952)
  • Son of Sinbad (1955)
  • The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
  • Adventures of Sinbad (1962)
  • Captain Sindbad (1963)
  • Sinbad Jr. (1965)
  • Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973)
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
    The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

    The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is a fantasy film released in 1974 in film and starring John Phillip Law as Sinbad. It includes a score by composer Mikl?s R?zsa and is noted for the stop-motion effects by Ray Harryhausen....
     (1974)
  • Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
    Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger

    Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a 1977 in film fantasy film, the final installment of Ray Harryhausen's "Sinbad trilogy" and the penultimate movie in which Ray Harryhausen would use the stop-motion technique he had pioneered since the late 1940s....
     (1977)
  • Sinbad of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad of the Seven Seas

    Sinbad of the Seven Seas is a 1989 film directed by Enzo G. Castellari revolving around the adventures of Sindbad the Sailor. It claims to be based on Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade," though no similarity can be found between its plot and the story....
     (1989)
  • The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor (1996)
  • The Adventures of Sinbad
    The Adventures of Sinbad

    The Adventures of Sinbad is a Canadian television series which aired from 1996 to 1998. It follows on the story from the pilot of the same name....
     (1996-98)
  • Alif Laila
    Alif Laila

    Alif Laila is a TV series based on the stories from The Arabian Nights. It was produced by Sagar Films . It was made in two seasons. The first season was aired on DD National and the second SAB TV....
     - A TV series by Sagar Films ( Pvt.Ltd.) for DD National
    DD National

    DD National or DD 1 is Doordarshan's flagship channel and the most widely available terrestrial television channel in India.History...
    . Also shown on SAB TV
    SAB TV

    SAB TV is an Indian general entertainment television channel that is owned by Multi Screen Media Pvt. Ltd. It was launched on April 23, 2000, by Sri Adhikari Brothers as a general entertainment channel....
     & Ary Digital
    ARY Digital

    ARY Television Network, a subsidiary of the ARY Group, is a popular Pakistani television network available in Pakistan, the Middle East, North America, Europe and Australia....
     tv channels
  • Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists
    Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists

    Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists is the first feature length CGI film created exclusively using motion capture. While many animators worked on the project, the human characters were entirely animated using motion capture....
     (2000)
  • Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

    Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas is a 2003 in film animated film produced by DreamWorks SKG with voices of characters from Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Joseph Fiennes....
     (2003)
  • "Backyardigans" (2007) episode: Sinbad Sails Alone
  • Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag
    Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag

    Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag is a TV series produced by Sagar Films for STAR Plus channel. The series was also re-telecast on STAR Utsav due to its popularity among Indian audiences....
    : Sinbad is a main character.


In high culture

  • In Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov , also Nikolay, Nicolai, and Rimsky-Korsakoff, was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as "The Five." Noted particularly for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his extraordinary skill in orchestration, his best known orchestral compositions...
    's suite     Scheherazade
    Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Scheherazade , opus number 35, is a symphonic suite composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. Based on One Thousand and One Nights, this orchestral work combines two features common to Russian music and of Rimsky-Korsakov, in particular: dazzling, colorful orchestration and an interest in Orient, which figured greatly in the hist...
    , the 1st, 2nd and 4th movement focus on portions of the Sinbad story. Various components of the story have identifiable themes in the work, including Rocs and the angry sea. In the climactic final movement, Sinbad's ship (6th voyage) is depicted as rushing rapidly toward cliffs and only the fortuitous discovery of the cavernous stream allows him to escape and make the passage to Serindib.
  • In The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. It is often considered to be, along with The Three Musketeers, Dumas' most popular work....
    , "Sinbad the Sailor" is but one of many pseudonym
    Pseudonym

    A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
    s used by Edmond Dantès
    Edmond Dantès

    Edmond Dant?s is the protagonist and title character of Alexandre Dumas, p?re's novel, The Count of Monte Cristo.Dumas got the idea for the character of Edmond from a story which he found in a book compiled by Jacques Peuchet, archivist to the French police....
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  • In his Ulysses
    Ulysses (novel)

    Ulysses is a novel by James Joyce, first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on February 2, 1922, in Paris....
    , James Joyce
    James Joyce

    James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
     uses "Sinbad the Sailor" as an alias for the character of W.B. Murphy and as an analogue to Odysseus
    Odysseus

    Odysseus or Ulysses , in Greek mythology , was a legendary Greeks king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's Epic poetry, the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
    . He also puns mercilessly on the name: Jinbad the Jailer, Tinbad the Tailor, Whinbad the Whaler, and so on.
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
     wrote a tale called "The Thousand and Second Tale of Scheherazade
    The Book of One Thousand and One Nights

    One Thousand and One Nights , is a collection of folk tales and other stories. The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on India elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East an...
    ". It depicts the 8th and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
  • Polish poet Boleslaw Lesmian
    Boleslaw Lesmian

    Boleslaw Lesmian was a Poland poet, artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland, one of the best poets of 20th century and cousin of another notable poet of the epoch - Jan Brzechwa and a nephew of famous poet and writer of Young Poland - Antoni Lange....
    's     Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor is a set of tales loosely based on the Arabian Nights.
  • In John Barth's "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor", "Sinbad the Sailor" and his traditional travels frame a series of 'travels' by the thinly anonymous 'Somebody the Sailor'.


In pop culture

  • Sinbad appears in the comic book
    Comic book

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     series     Fables written by Bill Willingham
    Bill Willingham

    Bill Willingham is an United States writer and artist of comics....
    , and as the teenaged Alsind in the comic book
    Comic book

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     series     Arak, Son of Thunder—which takes place in the 9th century AD—written by Roy Thomas
    Roy Thomas

    Roy Thomas is a comic book writer and editing, and Stan Lee's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics. He is possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics, with a series that added to the storyline of Robert E....
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  • In the Arabian Nights-themed video game Sonic and the Secret Rings
    Sonic and the Secret Rings

    , previously known by the working title Sonic Wild Fire, is a video game developed by Sonic Team in cooperation with NowPro, within the Sonic the Hedgehog ....
    , Sinbad looks almost exactly like Knuckles the Echidna
    Knuckles the Echidna

    is a video game character and a protagonist of the Sonic the Hedgehog game series, as well as some spin-off games and comics. His first appearance was Sonic The Hedgehog 3, released in 1994 to introduce a new rival for Sonic , presented as an antagonist who was tricked by Dr....
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  • In Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier
    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier

    The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill ....
     Sinbad appears as the Immortal Orlando's lover of thirty years.
  • Sinbad provides the theme for Sindbad's Storybook Voyage at Tokyo DisneySea
    Tokyo DisneySea

    is a 176 acre theme park at the Tokyo Disney Resort located in Urayasu, Chiba prefecture, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. It opened on September 4, 2001....
    , for a roller coaster
    Roller coaster

    For Rollercoaster, the wooden rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool, see Rollercoaster The roller coaster is a popular amusement ride developed for amusement parks and modern theme parks....
     at the Efteling
    Efteling

    Efteling is the largest theme park in The Netherlands, and as it opened in 1952, it is one of the oldest theme parks in the world. Efteling is located in the town of Kaatsheuvel, in the municipality of Loon op Zand....
     theme park at Kaatsheuvel
    Loon op Zand

    Loon op Zand is a municipality and a village in the southern Netherlands....
     in The Netherlands, and for an elaborate live-action stunt show,     The Eighth Voyage of Sindbad, at the Universal Orlando Resort in Florida
    Florida

    Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
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  • Sinbad The Sailor is a track in the Bollywood
    Bollywood

    Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry in India. The term is often used to refer to the whole of Cinema of India....
     movie Rock On!!
    Rock On!! (2008 film)

    Rock On!! is a Bollywood Cinema of India starring Arjun Rampal and debutantes Farhan Akhtar and Prachi Desai in the lead roles, along with Luke Kenny, Purab Kohli, Koel Purie, Shahana Goswami and Nicolette Bird....


In science

  • Copeland CS, Mann VH, Morales ME, Kalinna BH, Brindley PJ. "The Sinbad retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, and the distribution of related Pao-like elements." BMC Evol Biol. 2005 Feb 23;5(1):20. PMID: 15725362
  • Marcelli A, Burattini E, Mencuccini C, Calvani P, Nucara A, Lupi S, Sanchez Del Rio M. "SINBAD, a brilliant IR source from the DAPhiNE storage ring." J Synchrotron Radiat. 1998 May 1;5(Pt 3):575-7. Epub 1998 May 1. PMID: 15263583
  • Favorov OV, Ryder D. "SINBAD: a neocortical mechanism for discovering environmental variables and regularities hidden in sensory input." Biol Cybern. 2004 Mar;90(3):191-202. Epub 2004 Mar 12. PMID: 15052482 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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