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. It is often known in English as the … See more

The history of the Nights is extremely complex and modern scholars have made many attempts to untangle the story of how the collection as it currently exists came about. See more

The One Thousand and One Nights and various tales within it make use of many innovative literary techniques, which the storytellers of the … See more

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• One Thousand and One Nights book.
• Harun ar-Rashid, a leading character of the 1001 Nights
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The main frame story concerns Shahryār, whom the narrator calls a "Sasanian king" ruling in "India and China". Shahryār is shocked to learn that his brother's wife is unfaithful. Discovering that his own wife's infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her killed. In … See more

The influence of the versions of The Nights on world literature is immense. Writers as diverse as Henry Fielding to Naguib Mahfouz have alluded to the collection by name in their own … See more

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• Arabic literature
• Ghost stories
• Hamzanama
• List of One Thousand and One Nights characters See more