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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.
- Muhsin S. Mahdi
- 1995
May 29, 2024 · The Thousand and One Nights is a collection of largely Middle Eastern and Indian stories. The date and authorship of its stories are uncertain. Its tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor have become part of Western folklore.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 26, 2017 · An unparalleled monument to the ageless art of story-telling, the tales of the One Thousand and One Nights have, for many centuries, titillated the imaginations of generations the world over. Perhaps one of the greatest Arabic, Middle Eastern, and …
Explore some of the most famous and fascinating tales from the One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of folk stories and legends from the Middle East. Discover the adventures of Sinbad, Ali Baba, Scheherazade, and more in this article.
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The story takes place in the Sassanid era and begins with the Persian king Shahryar. The king rules an unnamed island "between India and China" (in modern editions based on Arab transcripts he is king of India and China). When Shahryar discovers his wife plotting with a lover to kill him, he has the pair executed. Believing all women to be likewise...
The work is made up of a collection of stories thought to be from traditional Persian, Arabic, and Indian stories. The core stories probably originated in an Iranic Empire and were brought together in a Persian work called Hazar Afsanah ("A Thousand Legends"). The Arabic compilation Alf Layla (A Thousand Nights), originating about 850 C.E., was in ...
Literature
Edgar Allan Poe wrote a "Thousand and Second Night" as a separate tale, called "The Thousand And Second Tale Of Scheherazade." It depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. While the king is uncertain- except in the case of the elephantscarrying the world on the back of the turtle- these mysteries are actual modern events that occurred in various places du...
Film and Television
There have been many adaptations of the Nights, for both television and the big screen, with varying degrees of faithfulness to the original stories. The atmosphere of the Nights influenced such films as Fritz Lang's 1921 Der müde Tod, the 1924 Hollywood film The Thief of [[Baghdad starring Douglas Fairbanks, and its 1940 British remake. It also influenced The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926), the first surviving feature-length animated film. One of Hollywood's first feature films to be base...
In 1888, Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completed his Op. 35 Scheherazade, in four movements, based upon four of the tales from the Arabian Nights; The Sea and Sinbad's Ship, The Kalendar Prince, The Young Prince and The Young Princess, and Festival At Baghdad. There have been several "Arabian Nights" musicals and operettas, either based ...
Moss, Joyce. Middle Eastern Literatures and their times. Thomas Gayle, 2004. ISBN 0787637319Ouyang, Wen-chin and van Gelder, Geert Jan, (eds.). New perspectives on Arabian nights : ideological variations and narrative horizons. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415366984Yamanaka, Yuriko and Tetsuko Nishio. The Arabian nights and orientalism : perspectives from East & West. I.B. Tauris, 2006. ISBN 1850437688All links retrieved January 24, 2020. 1. The Thousand Nights and a Night in several classic translations– including unexpurgated version by Sir Richard Francis Burton, and John Payne translation, with additional material. 2. Project Bartleby edition – Stories From One Thousand and One Nights, (Lane and Poole translation). 3. (expurgated) Sir Burton...
An excerpt from The Arabian Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales, translated by Husain Haddawy. The story of the porter and the three ladies is one of the many stories told by Shahrazad to the king to save her life.
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Jan 28, 2024 · 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.
