The Arabian Nights

Synopsis

A collection of folk stories written during the time of Islamic Golden Age with roots from Persian, Indian and Egyptian literature. Believed to have been written by various authors, the first English edition was published during the first decade of seventeenth century and was titled as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.

The Arabian Nights has an interesting back round of how 1000 stories are told. A sultan kills her cheating wife and decided to take revenge on the females. He starts marrying every day a new woman and kills them on the same night. An intelligent girl decides to stop this sultan from killing women.

She marries the Sultan and tells a story on the night. Her narration of storytelling was so interesting to the Sultan and asked her to tell another story. She said she can tell only one story a day. She has postponed her killing and started telling 1000 stories which eventually changed the sultan mind to not to kill women.

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