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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 Scheherazade beguiles Shahryar, postponing and.
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The Origins of the Arabian Nights Arabian Nights, more properly known as One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales, compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.This period lasted from the eighth century to the thirteenth century, when much of the Arabic-speaking world experienced a scientific, economic, and cultural flourishing.
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Story. After discovering his wife has been unfaithful, King Shahryār scorns all women. He marries and kills a new bride every day. Eventually Scheherazade, the Vizier's daughter, volunteers to marry him and, on their wedding night, starts to tell the King a story, but doesn't finish. He postpones her execution so he can hear the end, but.
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The Thousand and One Nights. Shahrazad must hold the interest of her despotic husband the sultan with nightly tales, lest she lose her life in the morning. This wellspring of storytelling, circulating from medieval Persia to Egypt to Iraq, like its wily raconteur lives on in many modern adaptations. Art, performance, and film images are.
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A Sea of Stories. The Arabian Nights, Scheherazade, Aladdin, "Open sesame!", Sinbad the sailor, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: many Americans are familiar with parts of The Thousand and One Nights —or they think they are. In truth, many of the most familiar stories today were not in the original collection of ancient stories, but were introduced less than 200 years ago by translators.
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The Arabian Nights is a collection of tales from the Islamic Golden Age, compiled by various authors over many hundreds of years.. Though each collection features different stories, they are all centered around the frame story of the sultan Shahrayar and his wife, Scheherazade.After finding out that his first wife is unfaithful, Shahrayar kills her and swears to marry a different woman each.
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One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. In 1948, a scholar, Nabia Abbott, discovered a fragment of manuscript dating back to the 9th century, which bears the title 'Kitab Hadith Alf Layla' (The Book of the Tale of the Thousand Nights). In the first few lines a character Dinazad asks Shirazad (Scheherazade) to tell him stories.
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The book known in English as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments or A Thousand and One Nights bears the imprint of many different times, places and individuals. The history of its transmission, translation, expurgation and falsification is nearly as fabulous as the tales told by its most famous character, Shahrazād (Scheherezade).
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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 story of Scheherazade.
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The Thousand and One Nights, collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories of uncertain date and authorship. Its tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have almost become part of Western folklore, though these were added to the collection only in the 18th century in European adaptations. Shahrazad.
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One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah) is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.
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The Thousand and One Nights. Excerpt from The Thousand and One Nights. Published in Stories from the Thousand and One Nights: The Arabian Night's Entertainments, 1937 "The King, hearing these words, and being restless, was pleased with the idea of listening to the story; and thus, on the first night of the thousand and one, Shahrazad commenced her recitations."
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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 authors.
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) 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 from.
