One Thousand and One Nights
Also known as 1,001 Nights, The 1,001 Nights, Arabian Nights, The Arabian Nights, 1001 night, 1001 Arabian nights, Las mil y una noches, El libro de las mil y una noches
collection of Middle Eastern folk stories
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"One Thousand and One Nights" is a collection of Middle Eastern folk stories that has been passed down and adapted over centuries. It remains significant as a foundational work of world literature and continues to influence storytelling, popular culture, and our understanding of Middle Eastern narrative traditions.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Chin-sŏk Chŏn
- First published
- 2005
- Editions
- 6
- Subjects
- Scheherazade (Legendary character), Comic books, strips, Graphic Novels, Modern fiction, Graphic Novels - General, Comics & Graphic Novels, Humor, Comics & Graphic Novels / General
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Article
One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf 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 Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature. Most tales, however, were originally folk stories from the Abbasid and Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hezār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان, lit. 'A Thousand Tales'), which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.