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Shahrayar. King of India and Indochina. He is a towering knight, a daring, invincible champion, and a respected ruler. When Shahrayar is betrayed by one of his wives, he judges that all women are untrustworthy. His marriage to Shahrazad is the central relationship in the collection. Read an in-depth analysis of Shahrayar. Shahrazad.
The true heroine and protagonist of The Arabian Nights, Shahrazad is the narrator of all the stories except the two that her father tells to convince her not to wed King Shahrayar.
This is a list of characters in One Thousand and One Nights (also known as The Arabian Nights), the classic, medieval collection of Middle-Eastern folk tales.
PersonDescriptionAppears InAbu al-Aswad al-Du'ali (Arabic: أبو ...an Arab linguist, a companion of Ali bin ...Abu al-Aswad and His Slave-girlAbu Nuwas (Arabic: أبو نواس)a renowned, hedonistic poet at the court ...several talesAbu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف)a famous legal scholar and judge, during ...Abu Yusuf with Harun al-Rashid and Queen ...Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (Arabic: عبد ...the most celebrated Umayyad caliph, ...Alî and Zâhir from Damascus City of Brass ...Alif Laila (The Arabian Nights), a 1993–1997 Indian TV series based on the stories from One Thousand and One Nights produced by Sagar Entertainment Ltd, aired on DD National starts with Scheherazade telling her stories to Shahryār, and contains both the well-known and the lesser-known stories from One Thousand and One Nights.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
Scheherazade (/ ʃ ə ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ z ɑː d,-d ə /) [1] is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
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The legendary heroine of the tales of the Arabian Nights is a girl named Scheherazade. It was said of Scheherazade that she was “learned, prudent, and witty.” She was the elder of the two daughters of the grand vizier (chief councilor of state) of a kingdom that lay somewhere between Arabia and China. The younger daughter was named Dunyazad.
