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Query: How many stories are in One Thousand and One Nights?
Story of King Shahryar and His Brother (1–1001) Tale of the Bull and the Ass (Told by the Vizier) (0) Tale of the Trader and the Jinni (2–3) The First Shaykh's Story (2) The Second Shaykh's Story ((2)) The Third Shaykh's Story ((2)) Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni (4–9) Tale of the Vizier and the Sage Duban (5) Story of King Sindibad and His Falcon ((5)) Tale of the Husband and the Parrot ((5)) Tale of the Prince and the Ogress ((5)) Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince (8) The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad (10–19) The First Kalandar's Tale (12) The Second Kalandar's Tale (13–14) Tale of the Envier and the Envied ((13)) The Third Kalandar's Tale (15–16) The Eldest Lady's Tale (18) Tale of the Portress ((18)) The Tale of the Three Apples (20–24) Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí and his Son (21–24) The Hunchback's Tale (25–34) The Nazarene Broker's Story (26) The Reeve's Tale (28) Tale of the Jewish Doctor (29) Tale of the Tailor (30–31) The Barber's Tale of Himself (32–33) The Barber's Tale of his First Brother ((31)) The Barber's Tale of his Second Brother (32) The Barber's Tale of his Third Brother ((32)) The Barber's Tale of his Fourth Brother ((32)) The Barber's Tale of his Fifth Brother (33) The Barber's Tale of his Sixth Brother ((33))
The Middle Eastern story collection One Thousand and One Nights has had a deep influence on culture around the world.
A selection of stories from "One Thousand and One Nights", titled "Yi Qian Lin Yi Ye" appeared in 1900. In 1906 a four-volume translation was made by Xi Rou, published in Shanghai.
One Thousand and One Nights (천일야화 "Cheon-il-ya-hwa") is a Korean manhwa written by Jeon JinSeok (전진석 "Jeon Jin-seog") and illustrated by Han SeungHee (한승희 "Han Seung-hui"). It is a different take on the events of the original "One Thousand and One Nights" story, where the main character dresses up like a woman to take his sister's place in the sultan's harem. There are eleven volumes, all of which have been published in English.
An early example of the frame story, or framing device, is employed in the "One Thousand and One Nights", in which the character Scheherazade narrates a set of tales (most often fairy tales) to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights. Many of Scheherazade's tales are also frame stories, such as the "Tale of Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman" being a collection of adventures related by Sindbad the Seaman to Sindbad the Landsman.
"Alif Laila" ("The Arabian Nights"), a 1997–2002 Indian TV series based on the stories from "One Thousand and One Nights" produced by Sagar Entertainment Ltd, starts with Scheherazade telling her stories to Shahryār, and contains both the well-known and the lesser-known stories from "One Thousand and One Nights".
He also wrote "The Thousand and One Days" (), a collection of fairy tales based on the model of "One Thousand and One Nights". It was published in five volumes between 1710 and 1712. He supposedly translated it from a Persian compilation titled "Hazar u yek ruz" (, "A Thousand and One Days") which he acquired from one 'Dervish Mocles' or 'Moklas' in Isfahan in 1675. It is unclear how much of this is true, and how much of the collection was actually invented by Pétis de la Croix himself. In any event, stories from the collection inspired other works including Carlo Gozzi's "Il re cervo" ("The King Stag") and "Turandot".
The themes and narrative structure are very similar to those of the "One Thousand and One Nights" — having as setting the immense Muslim world, the stories talk about intrepid travellers, epic and romantic adventures, and enigmas, desires and wonders, which enchant the reader. Besides the other similarities to the "One Thousand and One Nights", "One Hundred and One Nights" has the same heroine — Scheherazade — but it is thought to be older. With the exception of the tales of “The Ebony Horse” and the “Seven Viziers”, also present in "“One Thousand and One Nights”", the stories are different in the two works. However, the spirit of both is the same and the scholars consider that the reading of each one of them complements the other and allows a more complete appreciation of mediaeval Arabian literature. According to Claudia Ott, while "One Thousand and One Nights" talks about the Eastern Arab world, "One Hundred and One Nights" takes place in the Western Arab world.
Ja'far ibn Yahya, Ja'far or Ja'afar the Barmecide () was Harun al-Rashid's Persian Vizier and appears in many stories, normally accompanying Harun. In at least one of these stories, "The Three Apples", Ja'far is the protagonist of the story, depicted in a role similar to a detective. In another story, "The Tale of Attaf", he is also a protagonist, depicted as an adventurer alongside the protagonist Attaf.
NOTE: The numbers in parentheses indicate that the night in question began (and the previous night ended) during the tale indicated (or one of its sub-tales). Numbers in double parentheses mean that the story is fully contained in the indicated night. An asterisk indicates the story begins with the night.
"Leitwortstil" is 'the purposeful repetition of words' in a given literary piece that "usually expresses a motif or theme important to the given story". This device occurs in the "One Thousand and One Nights", which binds several tales in a story cycle. The storytellers of the tales relied on this technique "to shape the constituent members of their story cycles into a coherent whole."
A typical example of a frame story is "One Thousand and One Nights", in which the character Shahrazad narrates a set of fairy tales to the Sultan Shahriyar over many nights. Many of Shahrazad's tales are also frame stories, such as "Tale of Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman", a collection of adventures related by Sindbad the Seaman to Sindbad the Landsman.
Some of the earliest known frame stories are those from ancient Egypt, including one found in the Papyrus Westcar, the "Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor", and "The Eloquent Peasant". Other early examples are from Indian literature, including the Sanskrit epics "Mahabharata", "Ramayana", "Panchatantra", Syntipas's "The Seven Wise Masters", and the fable collections "Hitopadesha" and "Vikram and The Vampire". This form gradually spread west through the centuries and became popular, giving rise to such classic frame tale collections as the "One Thousand and One Nights" ("Arabian Nights"), "The Decameron", and "Canterbury Tales". This format had flexibility in that various narrators could retain the stories they liked or understood, while dropping ones they didn't and adding new ones they heard from other places. This occurred particularly with "One Thousand and One Nights", where different versions over the centuries have included different stories.
This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights. Burton's first ten volumes—which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night—were published in 1885. His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six volumes. Later pirate copies split the very large third volume into two volumes. The nights are in the style of stories within stories, and the frame story is The Story Of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother or The Story Of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad, in which Shahrazad tells tales to her husband Shahryar.
The "One Thousand and One Nights" and various tales within it make use of many innovative literary techniques, which the storytellers of the tales rely on for increased drama, suspense, or other emotions. Some of these date back to earlier Persian, Indian and Arabic literature, while others were original to the "One Thousand and One Nights".
One Hundred and One Nights () is a book of Arab literature consisting of twenty stories, which presents many similarities to the more famous "One Thousand and One Nights".
" The Orphan's Tales" is written in the style of "One Thousand and One Nights"; like the latter's main character Scheherazade, the girl tells a story that then branches into more stories. The prince's sister is named Dinarzad, another reference to "One Thousand and One Nights".
The history of the "Nights" is extremely complex and modern scholars have made many attempts to untangle the story of how the collection as it currently exists came about. Robert Irwin summarises their findings:
"One Thousand and One Nights" () is a medieval folk tale collection which tells the story of Scheherazade ( "Šahrzād"), a Sassanid queen who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar ( "Šahryār"), to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over several centuries, by many people from a number of different lands.
Ali Baba ( "") is a character from the folk tale Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (). This story is included in many versions of the "One Thousand and One Nights", which it was added to in the 18th century by Antoine Galland, who heard the story from a Syrian storyteller, Hanna Diyab. It is one of the most familiar of the "Arabian Nights" tales, and has been widely retold and performed in many media, especially for children, where the more violent aspects of the story are often suppressed.
The best known fiction from the Islamic world is "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" ("Arabian Nights"), a compilation of many earlier folk tales set in a frame story of being told serially by the Persian Queen Scheherazade. The compilation took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the 14th century; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another. All Arabian fantasy tales were often called "Arabian Nights" when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in any version of "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights", and a number of tales are known in Europe as "Arabian Nights" despite existing in no Arabic manuscript.
Stories from the "One Thousand and One Nights" have been popular subjects for films, beginning with Georges Méliès' "Le Palais des Mille et une nuits" (1905).
The "One Thousand and One Nights" ( "ʾAlf layla wa-layla"), is a medieval folk tale collection which tells the story of Scheherazade, a Sassanid queen who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar (Šahryār), to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over several centuries, by many people from a number of different lands.
Another obvious reference is to the stories of "One Thousand and One Nights". Haroun, the son of Rashid Khalifa refers to Harun al-Rashid, a caliph who ruled from 786 to 809 and who features frequently in Thousand and One Nights stories.
The general story is narrated by an unknown narrator, and in this narration the stories are told by Scheherazade. In most of Scheherazade's narrations there are also stories narrated, and even in some of these, there are some other stories. This is particularly the case for the "Sinbad the Sailor" story narrated by Scheherazade in the "One Thousand and One Nights". Within the "Sinbad the Sailor" story itself, the protagonist Sinbad the Sailor narrates the stories of his seven voyages to Sinbad the Porter. The device is also used to great effect in stories such as "The Three Apples" and "The Seven Viziers". In yet another tale Scheherazade narrates, "The Fisherman and the Jinni", the "Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban" is narrated within it, and within that there are three more tales narrated.