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Discovered by scholar Nabia Abbott in 1948, it bears the title Kitab Hadith Alf Layla ("The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights") and the first few lines of the book in which Dinazad asks Shirazad (Scheherazade) to tell her stories.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
Sep 13, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories. The date and authorship of its stories are uncertain. Its tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have become part of Western folklore.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The One Thousand and One Nights, perhaps better known in the Western world as the Arabian Nights, is a remarkable collection of folk tales and legends from what is commonly known as the Middle East. As with the classical Greek and Roman myths and the Norse legends, these stories are anonymous and have their roots in oral culture, passed down ...
‘Aladdin and the Magic Lamp’ shares a number of plot features with a later European fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century: ‘The Tinder Box’.
Oct 28, 2016 · 1,001 Nights, also known as The Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales that were originally published together during the Islamic Golden Age. The stories — from historical tales to tragic romances to comedies — were collected over many centuries by a huge range of scholars and ...
- Courtney Stanley
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The main frame story of Arabian Nights tells the tale of the ruler Shahryar and of Scheherazade. Shahryar discovers that both his brother's wife and his own wife have been unfaithful. He has his first wife executed. Shahryar comes to distrust all women. He becomes a bitter and grief-stricken man.
