Category:One Thousand and One Nights
Articles related to One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. 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, Egyptian, Sanskrit, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid and Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hezār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان, lit. A Thousand Tales), which in turn relied partly on Indian elements.
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This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "One Thousand and One Nights"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Abbasid literature
- Arabian mythology
- Books about folklore
- Egyptian folklore
- Epic poems in Arabic
- Erotic literature
- Frame stories
- Iranian folklore
- Iraqi folklore
- Islamic fiction
- Islamic literature
- Medieval Arabic literature
- Medieval legends
- Middle East in fiction
- Persian literature
- Persian mythology
- Islamic Golden Age