One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as The Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition, which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

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