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"Shahryar" redirects here. For other uses, see Shahryar (disambiguation). This is a list of characters within the medieval Middle-Eastern literary epic The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. It has been suggested that Mashriq be merged into this article or section. ...
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Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
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Characters in the frame story
Dunyazad Dunyazad (also called Dunyazade or Dinarzade) (Persian: دنیازاد) is a fictional character in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, the younger sister of the doomed Queen Scheherazade. In the story cycle, it is she who (at Scheherazade's instruction) initiates the tactic of cliffhanger storytelling to prevent her sister's execution by Shahryar. At the successful conclusion, she marries Shah Zaman, Shahryar's younger brother.-1...
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Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in which a movie, novel, or other work of fiction contains an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation. ...
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (كتاب ألف ليلة و ليلة in Arabic or هزار و یک شب in Persian), also known as The book of a Thousand Nights and a Night...
She is recast as a major character as the narrator of the Dunyazadiad segment of John Barth's novel Chimera. John Simmons Barth (born May 27, 1930) is an American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work. ...
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Scheherazade (Persian: شهرزاد Šahrzād) is a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and sister of Dunyazad. Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
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A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ...
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She marries King Shahryar, who has gone mad and executes a new bride everyday. For 1001 nights, Scheherazade tells her husband a story every night, stopping a dawn with a cliffhanger, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in which a movie, novel, or other work of fiction contains an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation. ...
Scheherazade's Father Scheherazade's Father is the vizier of King Shahryar. Everyday, on the kings order, he beheads the brides of Shahryar. He does this for many years until all the unmarried women in the kingdom have been either killed or runaway, at which point Scheherazade offers to marry the king. A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Vizir, Wasir, Wazir, Wesir, Wezir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages) is an oriental, originally Persian, term for a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or Minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, Amir, Malik (king) or Sultan. ...
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The vizier tells Scheherazade the Tale of the Bull and the Ass, in an attempt to discourage his daughter from marrying the mad king. It does not work and she married Shahryar anyway. Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
At the end of the 1001 nights, Scheherazade's Father goes to Samarkand where he replaces Shah Zaman as sultan.
Shahryār Not to be confused with Sharia (Islamic law). Shahryār or Shahriār or Shahriyār or Schahryār (Persian: شهريار, meaning The Great King) is the fictional Sassanid King of kings in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, who is told stories by his wife, Scheherazade. Sharia ( translit: ) is the body of Islamic law. ...
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Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate...
King of Kings (or some literal parallel in various languages) is a lofty title that has been used by several monarchies (usually empires in the informal sense of great powers) throughout history, and in many cases the literal title meaning King of Kings, i. ...
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
Queen Scheherazade tells her stories to King Shahryar. ...
He supposedly ruled over a Persian Empire extended to India, over all the adjacent islands and a great way beyond the Ganges as far as China, while Shahryār’s younger brother, Shāhzamān (شاهزمان) ruled over Samarkand. There is an anomaly in the story, for the King Shahryar is a Sassanid, and thus a Zoroastrian and not a Muslim as most of the stories' characters are. The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau (IrÄn - Land of the Aryans[1]) and beyond. ...
Early morning on the Ganges The River Ganges (Ganga in Indian languages) (Devanagiri गंगा) is a major river in northern India. ...
Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ...
Zoroastrianism was adapted from an earlier, polytheistic faith by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia very roughly around 1000 BC (although, in the absence of written records, some scholars estimates are as late as 600 BC). ...
A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Turkish: Müslüman, Persian and Urdu: مسلمان, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of Islam. ...
In the frame-story, Shahryār is betrayed by his wife, which makes him go mad and believe that all women will, in the end, betray him. So every night for three years, the mad king takes a wife and has her executed the next morning, until he marries Scheherazade, his vizier’s beautiful and clever daughter. For 1001 nights in a row, Scheherazade tells Shahryār a story, each time stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger, thus forcing him to keep her alive for another day so that she can complete the tale the next night. A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc. ...
A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Vizir, Wasir, Wazir, Wesir, Wezir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages) is an oriental, originally Persian, term for a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or Minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, Amir, Malik (king) or Sultan. ...
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in which a movie, novel, or other work of fiction contains an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation. ...
Shah Zaman Shah Zaman is the Sultan of Samarkand and brother of Shahryār. Shah Zaman catches his first wife in bed with a cook and cuts them both in two. Then, whilst staying with his brother, he discovers that Shahryār's wife is unfaithful. At this point, Shah Zaman comes to believe that all women are untrustworthy and he retunes to Samarkand where, as his brother does, he marries a new bride everyday and has her executed before morning. Sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ...
Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ...
At the end of the story, Shahryār calls for his brother and tells him of Scheherazade's incredible tales. Shah Zaman decides to stay with his brother and marries Dunyazad, who he has fallen in love with.
Characters in the Scheherazade's stories
Ahmed Prince Ahmed (Achmed) is the youngest of three sons of a Sultan of the Indies is noted for a magic tent which would expand so as to shelter an army, and contract so that it could go into one's pocket. Ahmed travels to Samarkand city and buys an apple that can cure any disease if the sick person smells it. Ahmed rescues the Princess Peri Banu (or Paribanou), a genie. Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ...
Ancient Assyrian stone relief of a genie. ...
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Aladdin is perhaps one of the most famous characters from the Nights and appears in Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. Aladdin in the Magic Garden, an illustration by Max Liebert from Ludwig Fuldas Aladdin und die Wunderlampe Aladdin (a corruption of the Arabic name AlÄ ad-DÄ«n, Arabic: علاء الدين literally nobility of faith) is one of the tales with a Syrian origin[1] in The Book of One Thousand...
Aladdin in the Magic Garden, an illustration by Max Liebert from Ludwig Fuldas Aladdin und die Wunderlampe Aladdin (a corruption of the Arabic name AlÄ ad-DÄ«n, Arabic: علاء الدين literally nobility of faith) is one of the tales with a Syrian origin[1] in The Book of One Thousand...
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Ali Baba (Arabic: علي بابا , Persian: علیبابا) is a character described in the adventure tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Ali Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909). ...
Ali Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909). ...
Arabic ( or just ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ...
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Ali Shar Ali Shar is a character fromAli Shar and Zumurrud who inherits a large fortune on the death of his father but very quickly squanders it all. He goes hungry for many months until he sees Zumurrud on sale in a slave market. Zumurrud gives Ali the money to buy her and the two live together and fall in love. A year later Zumurrud is kidnapped by a Christian and Ali spend the rest of the story in search for her. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...
Prince Ali Prince Ali is a son of Sultan of the Indies. He travels to Schiraz, the capital Persia, and buys a magic perspective glass that can see for hundreds of miles. For other uses of this term see: Persia (disambiguation) The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ...
The Barber of Baghdad The Barber of Baghdad is wrongly accused of smuggling and in order to save his live, he tells Caliph Mustensir Billah of his six brothers:- Caliph is the title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...
- Bacbouc who was hunchback
- Al-Fakik who was toothless
- Al-Bakbuk who was blind
- Al-Kuz who lost one of his eyes
- Al-Haddar who was very lazy
- Shakashik who had a harelip
Hunchback may refer to one of the following. ...
Cleft lip is a congenital deformity caused by a failure in facial development during pregnancy. ...
Cassim Cassim is the rich brother of Ali Baba who is killed by the Forty Thieves when he is caught stealing treasure from their magic cave. Ali Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909). ...
Duban Duban appears in The tale of the vizier and the Sage Duban and is a sage described as being a man of extraordinary talent. The ability to read Greek, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Byzantine, Syriac and Hebrew, as well as a deep understanding of botany, philosophy and natural history are only a few. Voyager 2 and Cassini views of Duban Crater Duban is a crater in the northern hemisphere of Saturns moon Enceladus. ...
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Syriac ( SuryÄyÄ) is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ...
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Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ...
Socrates (central bare-chested figure) about to drink hemlock as mandated by the court. ...
Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ...
He cures King Yunan from leprosy. Duban works his medicine in an unusual way: he creates a mallet and ball to match, filling the handle of the mallet with his medicine. When the king plays with the ball and mallet, he perspires, thus absorbing the medicine through the sweat from his hand into his bloodstream. After a short bath and a sleep, the King is cured, and rewards Duban with wealth and royal honor. Leprosy, also known as Hansens disease,[1] is an infectious disease caused by a DNA plasmid (transposon, or ultravirus, a small circle of DNA) carried in Hansens bacillus (the Mycobacterium leprae bacterium) which is thus the vector. ...
Medicine is a branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, treatment and possible prevention of disease and injury. ...
A mallet is a type of hammer, and is manufactured in different designs according to their intended use. ...
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Yunan's vizier, however, becomes jealous of Duban, and persuades Yunan into believing that Duban will later produce a medicine to kill him. The king eventually decides to punish Duban for his alleged treachery, and summons him to be beheaded. After unsuccessfully pleading for his life, Duban offers one of his prized books to Yunan to impart the rest of his wisdom. Yunan agrees, and the next day, Duban is beheaded, and Yunan begins to open the book, finding that no printing exists on the paper. After paging through for a time, Yunan realises that the leaves of the book were poisoned, and as he dies, the king realises that this was his punishment for betraying the doctor that once saved his life.
Husain Prince Husain, the eldest son of Sultan of the Indies, travels to Bisnagar (Vijayanagara) in India and buys a magic teleporting tapestry, also known as a magic carpet. Vijayanagara (often written Vijayanagar, meaning the city of victory), in northern Karnataka, is the name of the now ruined capital city of the historic Vijayanagara empire in the Southern part of India. ...
A magic carpet is a fictional carpet that would transport persons who were on it instantaneously or quickly to their destination. ...
Morgiana Morgiana is a clever slave girl from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins Ali Baba and through her quick wittedness she safes Ali's life many times and eventually kills his worst enemy, the leader of the Forty Thieves. As reward, Ail frees her and Morgiana marries Cassim's son. Ali Baba by Maxfield Parrish (1909). ...
Sinbad the Porter Sinbad is a poor porter from Baghdad who one day pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house. The owner of the house is Sinbad the Sailor and, seeing the porter, sends for. Amused by the fact that they share a name, Sinbad the Sailor relates the tales of his seven wondrous voyages to his namesake. Baghdad ( translit: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
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Sinbad the Sailor is perhaps one of the most famous characters from the Nights. He recounts his the tales of his seven voyages to Sinbad the Porter Sinbad the Sailor (also spelled Sindbad, from Persian سندباد, Sand-baad) is the name of a legendary story of Persian origin about a sailor born in the city of Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate who has numerous fantastic adventures during his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of...
Sinbad the Sailor (also spelled Sindbad, from Persian سندباد, Sand-baad) is the name of a legendary story of Persian origin about a sailor born in the city of Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate who has numerous fantastic adventures during his voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of...
Sultan of the Indies Sultan of the Indies has three sons Husain Ali and Ahmed. All three want to marry their cousin Princess Nouronnihar, so the Sultan says he will give her to the prince who brings back the most extraordinary rare object. The Indies, on the display globe of the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois The Indies or East Indies (or East India) is a term used to describe lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the former British India, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives...
Yunan King Yunan is a fictional king of one of the ancient Persian cities, in the province of Zuman, now modern Armenia who appears in The tale of the vizier and the Sage Duban. At the start of the story, Yunan is suffering from leprosy but he is cured by Duban the physician who he rewards greatly. This makes Yunan's vizier becomes jealous and he persuades the King that Duban wants to overthrow him. At first Yunan doesn’t believe and this and tells his vizier the Tale of the Husband and the Parrot to which the vizier responds by telling the Tale of the Prince and the Ogress. This convinces Yunan that Duban is guilty and he has him executed. Yunan later dies after reading a book of Duban's, the pages of which had been poisoned. The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau (IrÄn - Land of the Aryans[1]) and beyond. ...
Leprosy, also known as Hansens disease,[1] is an infectious disease caused by a DNA plasmid (transposon, or ultravirus, a small circle of DNA) carried in Hansens bacillus (the Mycobacterium leprae bacterium) which is thus the vector. ...
Zayn Al-Asnam Prince Zayn Al-Asnam appears in The Tale of Zayn Al-Asnam. He erects eight statues of gold (or diamond) and in quest for a statue for the ninth unoccupied pedestal, finding what he wanted in the person of a beautiful woman for a wife.
Al-Asnam is given a mirror by a Genie. Called the touch-stone of virtue, the mirror would inform Al-Asnam, upon looking into it, whether his damsel was faithful or not. If the mirror remained unsullied so was the maiden; if it clouded, the maiden had been unfaithful. Ancient Assyrian stone relief of a genie. ...
Zumurrud Zumurrud-the Smaragdine is a slave girl who appears in Ali Shar and Zumurrud. She is bought, and falls in love with, Ali Shar who she lives with until she is kidnapped by a Christian. Zumurrud escapes from the Christian only to be found and taken by Jawan the Kurd. Again, Zumurrud manages to get away from captor by dresses up as a man. On her way back to Ali Shar, Zumurrud is mistaken for a Turk nobleman and made Queen of an entire kingdom. Eventually, Zumurrud is reunited with Ali Shar. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...
Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ...
Real people who appear in the Nights
Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami was a renowned Arabic poet. A hedonistic caricature of him appears in several of the tales. A drawing of Abu Nuwas Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami (750?–815?) was a renowned Arabic poet. ...
A drawing of Abu Nuwas Abu-Nuwas al-Hasan ben Hani al-Hakami (750?–815?) was a renowned Arabic poet. ...
Arabic ( or just ), is the largest member of the family of Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. ...
The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
Mustensir Billah Mustensir Billah (or Al-Mustansir) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242. The Barber of Baghdad tells Mustensir stories of his six brothers. Al-Mustansir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242. ...
Al-Mustansir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1226 to 1242. ...
Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسيّون, AbbÄsÄ«yÅ«n) is the dynastic name generally given to the caliph of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Arab Empire, that overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Spain. ...
Caliph is the title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...
Baghdad ( translit: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
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Al-Mustazi Az-Zahir (or Al-Mustazi as he’s called in the Nights) was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1225 to 1226 and appears in The Hunchback’s Tale. Az-Zahir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1225 to 1226. ...
Az-Zahir was the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad from 1225 to 1226. ...
Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسيّون, AbbÄsÄ«yÅ«n) is the dynastic name generally given to the caliph of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Arab Empire, that overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Spain. ...
Caliph is the title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...
Baghdad ( translit: ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ...
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Events Carmelite Order approved by Pope Honorius III Frederick II calls Imperial Diet of Cremona Births June 21 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (died 1279) Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar (died 1286) Bar-Hebraeus, Syriac historian and bishop (died 1286) Deaths March 7 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English...
Harun al-Rashid was the fifth Abbasid Caliph who ruled from 786 until 809. Hārūn was a great fan of the Nights and appears in many stories. He was famous for going into the streets of his capital in disguise along with his vizier, Ja'fa, to observe the lives of the ordinary people. This is how he normally appears in the Nights. Persian miniature depicting HÄrÅ«n ar-RashÄ«d. ...
Persian miniature depicting HÄrÅ«n ar-RashÄ«d. ...
Abbasid provinces during the caliphate of Harun al-Rashid Abbasid (Arabic: العبّاسيّون, AbbÄsÄ«yÅ«n) is the dynastic name generally given to the caliph of Baghdad, the second of the two great Sunni dynasties of the Arab Empire, that overthrew the Umayyad caliphs from all but Spain. ...
Caliph is the title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...
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Ja'far ibn Yahya (Ja'far in the stories) was Harun al-Rashid's Persian Vizier and appears in may stories, normally accompanying Harun. Jafar (Arabic: ‎) is an Arabic name, variously transliterated as Jafar, Jaffar, Jaafar or Giafar. ...
Jafar bin Yahya Barmaki (Arabic: ‎, ja`far ben yaḥyÄ) (767-803) was the son of Harun al-Rashids Vizier Yahya ibn Khalid, from whom he inherited that position. ...
Persian miniature depicting HÄrÅ«n ar-RashÄ«d. ...
Look up Persian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Vizir, Wasir, Wazir, Wesir, Wezir - grammatical vowel changes are common in many oriental languages) is an oriental, originally Persian, term for a high-ranking political (and sometimes religious) advisor or Minister, often to a Muslim monarch such as a Caliph, Amir, Malik (king) or Sultan. ...
Khosrau II was a King of Persia from 590 to 628. He appear with his wife, Shirin, in a story on the three hundred and ninety-first night called Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman. Egyptian woven pattern woolen curtain or trousers, which was a copy of a Sassanid silk import, which was in turn based on a fresco of Persian King Khosrau II fighting Ethiopian forces in Yemen, 5-6th century. ...
Egyptian woven pattern woolen curtain or trousers, which was a copy of a Sassanid silk import, which was in turn based on a fresco of Persian King Khosrau II fighting Ethiopian forces in Yemen, 5-6th century. ...
The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Empire (Persian: ‎ Sasanian) is the name used for the fourth Iranian dynasty, and the second Persian Empire (226 - 651). ...
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Shirin the Armenian was the Christian wife of the Sassanid King Khosrau II. She appear with her husband, Khosrau, in a story on the three hundred and ninety-first night called Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman. Shirin (? – 628) was the Christian wife of the Persian Shah, Khosrau II. In the revolution after the death of Khosraus father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. ...
Shirin (? – 628) was the Christian wife of the Persian Shah, Khosrau II. In the revolution after the death of Khosraus father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Christianity. ...
Sassanid Empire at its greatest extent The Sassanid dynasty (also Sassanian) was the name given to the kings of Persia during the era of the second Persian Empire, from 224 until 651, when the last Sassanid shah, Yazdegerd III, lost a 14-year struggle to drive out the Umayyad Caliphate...
Egyptian woven pattern woolen curtain or trousers, which was a copy of a Sassanid silk import, which was in turn based on a fresco of Persian King Khosrau II fighting Ethiopian forces in Yemen, 5-6th century. ...
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See also This is a list of stories within Richard Francis Burtons translation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. ...
External links
References - 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.
- Stories From One Thousand and One Nights, (Lane and Poole translation): Project Bartleby edition
- The Arabian Nights (includes Lang and (expurgated) Burton translations): Electronic Literature Foundation editions
- Jonathan Scott translation of Arabian Nights
- Notes on the influences and context of the Thousand and One Nights
- 1001 Resources and Links for A Thousand and One Nights University of Houston
- The Book of the Thousand and One Nights by John Crocker
- (expurgated) Sir Burton's ~1885 translation, annotated for English study.
- The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, available freely at Project Gutenberg
- 1001 Nights, Representative of eastern literature (in Persian)
- "The Youth and his Tutor" & "Abu Nuwas and the Three Youths" - Two homoerotic tales from the Arabian Nights
- "The Thousand-And-Second Tale of Scheherazade" by Edgar Allan Poe (Wikisource)
- Arabian Nights Six full-color plates of illustrations from the 1001 Nights which are in the public domain
- (Arabic) The Tales in Arabic on Wikisource
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