One Thousand and One Nights 6/1 - Luxury illustrated edition inside a box

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About One Thousand and One Nights, 6 volumes from Dar Sadir: its author is well-versed in the Quran and its sciences, unknown name and era. The main framing story of the tales of One Thousand and One Nights tells the story of a king named Shahryar, where it began when the king discovered that his sister's wife was unfaithful, and he 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 Shahrzad offered herself to be the king's bride, so her father reluctantly agreed. On their wedding night, Shahrzad 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 compelled him to postpone her execution to listen to the end of the story. On the following night, when she finishes a story, she begins a new story, enticing the king to hear its ending as well, and so on, until he completed a thousand and one nights. The edition, consisting of 6 volumes, features 101 colored illustrations.*The unedited version, not suitable for young children.