The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ( Hazār-o Yak Šab, 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 (Shahrzad in Persian), a Sassanid Queen, who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar, to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over many centuries, by many people and in many styles, and they have become famous in their own right. Notable examples include Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor.

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The nucleus of the stories is formed by a Pahlavi Sassanid Persian book called Hazār Afsānah Abdol Hossein Saeedian, "Land and People of Iran" p. 447 ("Thousand Myths", in ). During the reign of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid in the 8th century, Baghdad had become an important cosmopolitan city. Merchants from Persia, China, India, Africa, and Europe were all found in Baghdad. It was during this time that many of the stories, which were originally folk stories, are thought to have been collected orally over many years and later then compiled into a single book. The later compiler and translator into Arabic is reputedly storyteller Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar in the 9th century. The frame story of Shahrzad seems to have been added in the 14th century. The first modern Arabic compilation, made out of Egyptian writings, was published in Cairo in 1835.

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If I won @steepster's contest http://bit.ly/tea-contest, the first tea I'd make with @joeyroth's Sorapot is 1001 Nights
davekooi (Dave Kooi) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:13:22 -0000
If I won @steepster's contest http://bit.ly/tea-contest, the first tea I'd make with @joeyroth's Sorapot is 1001 Nights
I didn't even write about Genji for my in class essay. I covered Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son, 1001 Nights and an angry Roman poet. <3
SurrealMystery (SurrealMystery) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:53:32 -0000
I didn't even write about Genji for my in class essay. I covered Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son, 1001 Nights and an angry Roman poet. <3
Tonight at NYU Abu Dhabi, 1001 Nights at the Interncontinental--... http://bit.ly/6eEHII
NightCounter (Alia Yunis) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:07:37 -0000
Tonight at NYU Abu Dhabi, 1001 Nights at the Interncontinental--... http://bit.ly/6eEHII
@1001_NiGHTS 遅くなって申し訳ない！題目は研究科のＨＰから登録して、その後用紙をプリントアウトして事務に持ってくみたい。
casabatllo (や) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:49:04 -0000
@1001_NiGHTS 遅くなって申し訳ない！題目は研究科のＨＰから登録して、その後用紙をプリントアウトして事務に持ってくみたい。
@RyanStegman "Crime and Punishment" or "1001 Arabian Nights" those r pretty good stories
HellovAhGuy (will yew) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:16:10 -0000
@RyanStegman "Crime and Punishment" or "1001 Arabian Nights" those r pretty good stories
@1001_NiGHTS 修論題目提出木曜日正午までだけど、間に合いそう？
casabatllo (や) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:20:49 -0000
@1001_NiGHTS 修論題目提出木曜日正午までだけど、間に合いそう？

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