The Arabian Nights, also called One Thousand and One Nights, is a collection of stories and folk tales from West and South Asia that was compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It took centuries to collect all of these together, and various translators, authors, and scholars have contributed. These stories trace back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian literature. Many of these were originally folk tales from the era of the Abbasid Caliphate, while others are drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān.
The original core of stories came from Persia and India in the eighth century. After being translated into Arabic, they were called Alf Layla,...
