Sinbad
Also known as Sinbad the Sailor, he is one of the fictional characters mentioned in one of the stories of One Thousand and One Nights. He described Sinbad as a sailor of Baghdadi origin, a contemporary of the Abbasid state, and his story is considered one of the most famous tales of One Thousand and One Nights. During which Sinbad visited a number of magical places and faced difficulties and hardships during his sailing; As he met with imaginary monsters in the regions off the coast of eastern Africa and the southern regions of the continent of Asia.
The number of Sinbad's journeys reaches seven, in which he saw horrors and hardships, and his salvation from them and overcoming them is considered a miraculous escape. Among the most prominent novels and stories of Sinbad that came from Scheherazade's tongue is the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, and many other famous novels.
Sinbad's Travels
According to Scheherazade, the number of trips that Sinbad undertook was seven, and they were as follows:
- The first trip to the moving island and the sea horses: Sinbad rode the sea with a group of merchants by a ship that was carrying them, and they landed on an island that met them in the middle of the road, so they lit their fires and began to eat their food, but one of the sailors had noticed that the island was moving, and there was a whale in it and not an island in fact. The sailor told them that the whale would dive into the depths of the sea due to its feeling of heat from the fires they lit, so they rushed to board the ship and escape from it, but Sinbad was not lucky to board the ship, but he managed to survive after he clung to a piece of wood, and the captain fled on the ship and did not care who drowned behind him.
- The second trip to the Valley of Diamonds: This trip comes as a continuation of the first trip, so Sinbad, after being left by the ship’s crew alone at sea, arrives at an uninhabited island, so Sinbad begins to wander in all its corners, and he sees a large dome and approaches it little by little until he discovers that it is the egg of the mythical bird. The rook bird, so an idea came to his mind to tie himself to the leg of the bird to land on any other island, and indeed he did so, so the bird landed it in a deep valley full of snakes, as it is full of diamonds and jewels, so he began to collect them, but the surprise was that a sacrifice fell from the top of the mountain to the valley, so he took advantage of his intelligence And he tied himself to it because he was sure that the bird would carry it and take it with him, and he met some of those who came to collect diamonds there, and they brought him to the city of Basra in Iraq.
- The third journey: the journey of the black ogre.
- Fourth Journey: “Sinbad is buried alive.”
- The fifth trip: under the title of Sheikh Al-Bahr.
- The sixth trip is themed river cruise in a cave.
- The seventh trip to the elephant cemetery.
