One Thousand and One Nights
collection of Middle Eastern folk stories
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Summary
One Thousand and One Nights is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 0.22% of literary work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,896 views/month, #62 of 28,446).[2]
Key Facts
- Author: various authors[3]
- Instance of: literary cycle[4]
- Commons category: Arabian Nights[5]
- Language of work or name: Turks[6]
- Country of origin: Middle East[7]
- Has part(s): Sinbad the Sailor[8], Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp[9], Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves[10], The Ruined Man of Baghdad and His Slave-Girl[11], The Lovers in the School[12], Der Eseltreiber und der Dieb[13]
- Characters: Scheherazade[14], Shahryar[15], Dunyazad[16], Solomon in Islam[17], Harun al-Rashid[18], Sinbad the Sailor[19], Badroulbadour[20], Old Man of the Sea[21], Aziz[22], Uns al-Wujud[23], Ahmed[24], Alasnam[25], Thief of Baghdad[26]
- Has edition or translation: Le Mille ed una Notti[27], El libro de las mil noches y una noche[28], The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights' entertainments[29], Les Mille et Une Nuits, Contes Arabes, Tome I[30], Le Livre des milles nuits et une nuit[31], The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night[32], Kun habeen ivo kow[33], Les Mille et Une Nuits[34], Stories from the Arabian nights[35], Tuhat ja yksi yötä (2010)[36], Khautul Kulub (Gundik Khalifah)[37], Tusen och en natt. Första fullständiga, med talrika Illustrationer försedda, Swenska öfwersättninge ...[38], Arabian Nights[39], Arabian Nights Entertainments[40]
- Topic's main category: Category:One Thousand and One Nights[41]
- Described by source: Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[42], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[43], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[44], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[45], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[46], New International Encyclopedia[47]
- Topic has template: Template:One Thousand and One Nights[48]
- Title: ألف ليلة وليلة[49], Arabian Nightskuyurdtpok;j^tyxr[50], anglais[51], allemend[52]
- Manifestation of: Storytelling Saves a Wife from Death[53]
- Uses: mise en abyme[54]
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Cultural Impact
Things named for One Thousand and One Nights include New Arabian Nights[55], a literary work[56], written by Robert Louis Stevenson[57].
Why It Matters
One Thousand and One Nights has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[58] It is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[59]
Entities named for it include New Arabian Nights[55], a literary work[56], written by Robert Louis Stevenson[57].