One Thousand and One Nights 1-6

Number of volumes / 6 Publisher Dar Sader Author of those who are proficient in the Quran and its sciences, unknown name and era Reviewed by Sheikh Muhammad Qatta Al-Adawi Introduction and editing: Dr. Afeef Hatoum The main framing story of the tales of One Thousand and One Nights tells the story of a king named Shahryar, where the matter began when the king discovered that his sister's wife was treacherous and was shocked by that matter, and what increased that was the discovery of his wife’s betrayal to him also, it was an unbearable matter for him, so he decided to execute her, and he saw that all women are wrong. King Shahryar married virgins, daily, where he kills the bride on the wedding night before she has the chance to betray him. After a while, the minister who was tasked with providing a bride for the king could not find more virgins. Then his daughter Scheherazade offered herself to be the king’s bride, so her father reluctantly agreed. On their wedding night, Scheherazade began telling a story to the king but did not finish it, which aroused the king’s curiosity to hear the end of the story, and necessarily delayed her execution to listen to the end of the story. And on the following night, when she finishes a story, she begins a new story, enticing the king to hear its end as well, and so on, until she completed a thousand and one nights. The edition, consisting of 6 volumes, features 101 colored illustrations.