LIST of STORIES: Volume 1 * Story Of King Shahryar and His Brother o Tale of the Bull and the Ass (Told by the Wazir) o Tale of the Trader and the Jinni (1) + The First Shaykh’s Story (2) + The Second Shaykh’s Story + The Third Shaykh’s Story (3) o The Fisherman and the Jinni (4) + Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban (5) # Story of King Sindibad and His Falcon # Tale of the Husband and the Parrot # Tale of the Prince and the Ogress (6)(7) + Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince (8)(9) o The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad (10)(11) + The First Kalandar’s Tale (12) + The Second Kalandar’s Tale (13) # Tale of the Envier and the Envied (14) + The Third Kalandar’s Tale (15)(16)(17) + The Eldest Lady’s Tale (18) + Tale of the Portress (19) o Conclusion … Read entire article »

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb ‘alf layla wa-layla; Persian: هزار و یک شب Hezār-o yek šab) is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment. The original concept is most likely derived from an ancient Sassanid Persian prototype that relied partly on Indian elements,but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and … Read entire article »