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شهرزاد قصهگو
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Sheherazade ( also spelled Scheherazade, Shahrazad, or Šahrzād) is the legendary narrator and central framing character of One Thousand and One Nights (), a collection of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African folktales compiled in Arabic between roughly the 8th and 14th centuries. Sheherazade is the wife of King Shahryar and saves herself, and ultimately the women of the kingdom, from execution by recounting a continuous sequence of interlinked stories over the course of 1,001 nights.
Scheherazade is the legendary narrator of *One Thousand and One Nights*, a collection of folktales from the Middle East, South Asia, and North Africa compiled in Arabic between the 8th and 14th centuries. She is the king's wife who saves herself and other women from execution by telling him an unbroken chain of interconnected stories over 1,001 nights.
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Key facts
- Character.name
- Scheherazade
- Character.series
- One Thousand and One Nights
- Character.image
- Scheherazade.tif
- Character.caption
- Scheherazade, 19th century painting by Sophie Anderson
- Character.portrayer
- Mili Avital, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Claude Jade, Anna Karina, María Montez, Cyrine Abdelnour, Sulaf Fawakherji, Annette Haven, Meredith Stepien, Damini Kanwal Shetty
- Character.occupation
- Queen consort
- Character.spouse
- Shahryar
- Character.gender
- Female
- Character.children
- 3 sons and possibly 1 daughter
- Character.lbl21
- Other names
- Character.data21
- Shahrazad, Shahrzad
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Shahryar
- Sibling
- Dunyazad
- Performer
- Mili Avital
- Image
- Scheherazade.tif
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- Commons category
- Scheherazade
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- present in work
- One Thousand and One Nights
- name in native language
- شهرزاد
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