Arabian Nights
Sinbad's story collection
The Arabian Nights, also called One Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian folk tales framed by the story of Scheherazade, who tells her king a new tale each night to delay her execution.
The tales include Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad.
By extension, Arabian Nights describes anything exotic, fantastical, or labyrinthine: The palace was something out of the Arabian Nights.
- AladdinStoried genie summoner
- cave of wondersMagical cavern holding riches
- Ali BabaFolkloric treasure discoverer
- ScheherazadeLegendary endless storyteller
- genieMagical wish-granting spirit
jinni · thieves · storytelling · sorcerers · Sinbad · Islamic Golden Age · Harun al-Rashid · Middle East · oral tradition · folklore · Baghdad · open sesame · magic lamps · scimitar · sultan · turban · harem · spices
- Aladdin SongsPrince Ali
- folk literaturefolk tales, folk sayings, folk literature, folk wisdom, oral histories
- Orientalismodalisque, orientalism, Egyptology, snake charmer, harems
- Translated ClassicsDon Quixote, Divine Comedy, Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid
- Desert TitlesDune, Sahara
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
Arabian NightsBrothers Grimm
German folklorists, sibling scholars
Mother Goose · Norse sagas · Arthurian legends · Hans Christian Andersen · Norse mythology
Arabian NightsCanterbury Tales
Medieval English story collection
night, midnight, nightfall, nighttime, overnight, nightly, Arabic, Arabian, arabesque