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One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, Alf Laylah wa-Laylah), [1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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 ...
Articles related to One Thousand and One Nights, a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa.
Pages in category "Middle Eastern folklore" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Middle Eastern folklore may refer to: Arab folklore; Armenian folklore; Assyrian/Syriac folklore; Iranian folklore; Jewish folklore; Qatari folklore; Turkish folklore ...
One Thousand and One Nights, also known as "the Arabian Nights", is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales; The Daredevils of Sassoun, an Armenian folk epic; The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian epic poem; Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest epic of the world from Mesopotamia; Enūma Eliš, The Babylonian creation epic from Mesopotamian ...
Taghribat Bani Hilal is an Arabic epic recounting the Banu Hilal's journey from Egypt to Tunisia and conquest of the latter in the 11th century. It was declared one of mankind's Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO in 2003.
In addition, according to scholar Kurt Ranke, in Enzyklopädie des Märchens, the "greatest distribution density" occurs in Europe and in the Mediterranean region, with variants also collected in the Middle East (Turkey, Palestine, Iraq, Yemen, Iran), Central Asia (in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), India (among the Santal people), [30] [31] and in ...