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Scheherazade in the palace of her husband, Shahryar. Scheherazade or Shahrazad (Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد, Šahrāzād, lit. ' child of the city ') [1] [2] is the legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and the elder sister of Dunyazad.
Scheherazade (/ ʃ ə ˌ h ɛr ə ˈ z ɑː d,-d ə /) [1] is a major character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights.
One such cycle of Arabic tales centres around a small group of historical figures from ninth-century Baghdad, including the caliph Harun al-Rashid (died 809), his vizier Jafar al-Barmaki (d. 803) and the licentious poet Abu Nuwas (d. c. 813). Another cluster is a body of stories from late medieval Cairo in which are mentioned persons and places ...
The King and His Vizier's Wife (579) The Confectioner, His Wife and the Parrot; The Fuller and His Son (580) The Rake's Trick Against the Chaste Wife; The Miser and the Loaves of Bread (581) The Lady and Her Two Lovers; The King's Son and the Ogress (582) The Drop of Honey; The Woman Who Made Her Husband Sift Dust; The Enchanted Spring (583–584)
The Dutch music group Ch!pz has also released a song called "1001 Arabian Nights" and also has a film clip to go along with it which illustrates one of the stories. Mexican female music group Flans released a song called "Las Mil y una Noches" (One Thousand and One Nights) "Scheherazade" is a song by Panda Bear, from the 2011 album Tomboy.
The grand vizier, enemy of the Caliph, ambushes a traveling party and takes Scheherazade prisoner, threatening to cut off her head. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her. Renaud saves her and flees into the desert with her.
Name Entered office Left office Place of origin Abu'l-Hasan Isfaraini: 998 1010 Isfarain, Khorasan: Ahmad Maymandi: 1013 1024 Maymand, Zabulistan Hasanak the Vizier: 1024
Les 1001 Nuits is a French-Italian fantasy film loosely based on the ancient Arabic legend One Thousand and One Nights.It is directed by Philippe de Broca and stars Catherine Zeta-Jones as Sheherazade, who has married a king (Thierry Lhermitte), who desires to have many virgin wives, but only one at a time.