Arabian Nights

Cultural  

1. A famous collection of Persian, Indian, and Arabian folktales. Supposedly, the legendary Scheherazade told these stories to her husband the sultan, a different tale every night for 1,001 days; therefore, the collection is sometimes called The Thousand and One Nights. The Arabian Nights includes the stories of familiar characters such as Aladdin and Ali Baba.

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Example Sentences

“And there's an element that is very similar to ‘Arabian Nights’ in that sense.

From Salon

Communities were renamed Mecca and Arabia; the yearly date festival offered an “Arabian Nights” pageant and the crowning of “Queen Scheherazade.”

From Los Angeles Times

“One Night” distills these nested tales, known as “One Thousand and One Nights” or the “Arabian Nights.”

From New York Times

The Scheherazade shares a name with the female storyteller in “The Arabian Nights,” and it made one brief foray into the Red Sea in September 2020, calling at the Egyptian port of Hurghada.

From New York Times

In his substantial introduction, Paulo Lemos Horta, who teaches at New York University at Abu Dhabi, deftly surveys several centuries of “Arabian Nights” scholarship.

From Washington Post