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  2. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    One Thousand Nights; 1933) was a Hindi -language fantasy film based on One Thousand and One Nights from the early era of Indian cinema, directed by Balwant Bhatt and Shanti Dave. K. Amarnath made, Alif Laila (1953), another Indian fantasy film in Hindi based on the folktale of Aladdin. [134]

  3. List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    Story of the Two Lack-Tacts of Cairo and Damascus (837–840) Tale of Himself Told By the King (912–917) Appendix I - Catalogue of Wortley Montague Manuscript Contents; Appendix II; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol IV of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby; Notes on the Stories Contained in Vol V of "Supplemental Nights", by W. F. Kirby

  4. Scheherazade - Wikipedia

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    At the end of 1,001 nights, and 1,000 stories, Scheherazade finally told the king that she had no more tales to tell him. She summoned her three sons that she had bore him during the 1000 nights to come in before the king (one was a nursling, one was crawling, and one could walk) and she placed them in front of the king.

  5. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (1888), subtitled A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, is the only complete English language translation of One Thousand and One Nights (the Arabian Nights) to date – a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age (8th−13th centuries) – by ...

  6. List of One Thousand and One Nights characters - Wikipedia

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    a renowned, hedonistic poet at the court of Harun al-Rashid, the Caliph. several tales. Abu Yusuf. (Arabic: أبو يوسف) a famous legal scholar and judge, during the reign of Harun al-Rashid. Abu Yusuf was also one of the founders of the Hanafi school of Islamic law. Abu Yusuf with Harun al-Rashid and Queen Zubayda.

  7. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Wikipedia

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    In the American/British television mini-series Arabian Nights (2000), the story is told faithfully with two major changes. The first is: when Morgiana discovers the thieves in the oil jars, she alerts Ali Baba and, together with a friend, they release the jars on a street with a steep incline that allows the jars to roll down and break open.

  8. Sinbad the Sailor - Wikipedia

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    Like the 1001 Nights, the Sinbad story-cycle has a frame story which goes as follows: in the days of Harun al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad, a poor porter (one who carries goods for others in the market and throughout the city) pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house, where he complains to God about the injustice of a ...

  9. The Fisherman and the Jinni - Wikipedia

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    The story is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as tale type ATU 331, "The Spirit in the Bottle". [1] According to scholars Ulrich Marzolph [], Richard van Leewen and Stith Thompson, similar stories have appeared as literary treatments in the Middle Ages (more specifically, since the 13th century), [2] [3] although Marzolph and van Leewen argue that the literary ...