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One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ ʾAlf Laylah wa-Laylah) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
The Arabian Nights. Arabic: Alf laylah wa laylah. Aladdin Saluted Her with Joy, illustration by Virginia Frances Sterrett from a 1928 edition of The Arabian Nights. (more) The Thousand and One Nights, collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Arabian Nights is a collection of stories, all of which revolve around one main plot: a new wife, Shahrazad, must tell her husband, King Shahrayar, a new story every night lest he kill her in the morning. While some stories stand alone, several of Shahrazad’s stories contain a number of shorter tales, which are “told” by characters in ...
The Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights’ Entertainment Arabic Alf laylah wa laylah, Collection of Oriental stories of uncertain date and authorship. The frame story, in which the vengeful King Shahryar’s plan to marry and execute a new wife each day is foiled by the resourceful Scheherazade, is probably Indian; the tales with which ...
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The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة Kitāb 'Alf Layla wa-Layla; also known as The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night, One Thousand and One Nights, 1001 Arabian Nights, Arabian Nights, The Nightly Entertainments or simply The Nights) is a medieval Middle Eastern literary epic which tells the s...
At its core, The Arabian Nights is a story about storytelling. In the frame, Shahrazad believes that her storytelling can save her own life, and the lives of other women, if she can create so much suspense that she can hold her husband, King Shahrayar, enchanted by her words night after night.
