One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights, written by a group of authors... Oh my father, marry me to this king, for I shall either live or be sacrificed for the daughters of Muslims, and a reason for their salvation from his hands. What imagination did Scheherazade possess? She made storytelling her only means to defend her life and her fellow women. In her stories, the narrator "Scheherazade" and the listener "Shahryar" and the heroes of the tales merge in each night until dawn arrives and she falls silent from speaking forbidden words. How sweet and beautiful her speech is, full of wonders and strange things, many biographies of virtue and profound meanings for the ranks of people, what happened to kings and commoners from the beginning of time until completion, what has passed and the history of nations' stories. Tales that, if written with needles on the depths of sight, would serve as a lesson for those who consider. News of kings and their children, ministers and governors, sultans and subjects, humans and jinn, thieves, swindlers, and bandits, poets, jurists, and scholars, kingdoms, mountains, and seas. Stories that gather among them the rarest and most astonishing sayings and narrations, remaining for centuries in the cultural memory of nations. The book "One Thousand and One Nights" is the richest of what popular imagination of nations has produced, accumulated oral stories over ages from the Abbasid to the Fatimid, each narrator trying to surpass his predecessor and bring astonishing news and strange, wonderful thoughts in this intertwined storytelling of facts and legends, which made the text of One Thousand and One Nights continually renewed in its linguistic or structural characteristics. The book "One Thousand and One Nights" spread throughout the world because of the incidents and calamities it contains, which delight the mind and enchant the heart, and Orientalists have always sought to obtain it across ages, a lesson of time and a pleasure for minds.