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The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on Indian elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazr Afsn. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century. Some of the best-known stories of The Nights, particularly "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp", "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor", while almost certainly genuine Middle-Eastern folk tales, were not part of The Nights in Arabic versions, but were interpolated into the collection by its early European translators. (From wikipedia) The Arabian Nights , by Anonymous , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics ser

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Author

Henry William Dulcken; Muhsin J. al-Musawi; Antoine Galland

Publisher

Barnes & Noble; Barnes & Noble Classics

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781593082819

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

4.06 / 5 (291 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14