Arabian Nights

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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The Arabian Nights and its flying carpets would also have served nicely.

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

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

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

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Every hero from The Arabian Nights carried a scimitar.

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