🌍 One Thousand and One Nights

Arabian folk tale collection from the Islamic Golden Age; Scheherazade's stories to survive

Middle East 1000 Myths & Epics

🐉 Key Facts

Middle Eastern folk tales compiled over many centuries; Scheherazade tells 1,001 stories to avoid execution

Famous tales include Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, and The Seven Voyages

First translated into French by Antoine Galland (1704–1717); popularised in the West during the Romantic era

Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad the Sailor are not in the original Arabic text — they were added by 18th-century European translators