If there is an Arab work inspiring all human beings and immortal over the ages, then there is only "a thousand and one nights", and if we classify the most important books in human history, we will not be able to overlook the most important and most influential Arab folk stories in the world, which made them come among the top 100 global books Throughout the ages, according to the statistics of the World BookLocken Library.
And “One Thousand and One Nights” is a collection of stories that were reported in West and South Asia in addition to the folk tales that were collected and translated into Arabic during the golden age of Islam. The book is also known as the Arabian Nights in the English Language, since the first English version of it was issued in 1706, And his old Arabic name is "Asmar Al-Layali Al-Arab, which includes humor and inherits the ritual," according to its publisher, William MacKington.
The work has been collected for centuries by authors, translators and researchers from West, Central and South Asia and North Africa. The stories go back to the ancient and medieval centuries of Arab, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian civilizations. Most of the stories were mainly folk tales from the era of the caliphate, and others, especially the story of the framework, were most likely drawn from Persian pahlavi work "A Thousand Myths" (in Persian: Hazar Afsan) which in turn depended partly on Indian literature. On the other hand, there are those who say that these accounts are related to Bubbly.
There are some famous stories that include a thousand and one nights, such as "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp", "Ali Baba and the forty thieves" and "The Seven Seas of Sinbad's Trips", and there are some folk tales in the Middle East that are almost certain, It is not part of the One Thousand and One Nights found in the Arabic editions, but was added by French orientalist Antoine Gallan and other European translators.
Among the prominent figures in "One Thousand and One Nights" are the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid, his minister Ja`far al-Barmaki and the famous poet Aba Nawas. Although these figures appeared about two hundred years after the fall of the Sassanid Empire, which is apparently the origin of the story, it appears in a number of other tales. Included in the book.
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