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  2. Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Wikipedia

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    Ali Baba and his older brother, Cassim (Arabic: قاسم Qāsim, sometimes spelled Kasim), are the sons of a merchant. After their father's death, the greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman and becomes well-to-do, living lazily on their father's business and his wife’s wealth. Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a ...

  3. One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia

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    Illustration depicting Morgiana and the thieves from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. An example of the murder mystery [91] and suspense thriller genres in the collection, with multiple plot twists [92] and detective fiction elements [93] was "The Three Apples", also known as Hikayat al-sabiyya 'l-maqtula ('The Tale of the Murdered Young Woman ...

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

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    Morgiana (Arabic: ‏ مرجانة ‎, marjāna or murjāna, 'small pearl') is a clever slave girl from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. She is initially in Cassim's household but on his death she joins his brother, Ali Baba, and through her quick-wittedness she saves Ali's life many times, eventually killing his worst enemy, the leader of the ...

  5. Scheherazade - Wikipedia

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    According to modern scholarship, the name Scheherazade derives from the Middle Persian name Čīhrāzād, which is composed of the words čīhr (' lineage ') and āzād (' noble, exalted '). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name in Arabic sources include Shirazad ( Arabic : شيرازاد , romanized : Šīrāzād ) in al ...

  6. Sinbad the Sailor - Wikipedia

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    Sinbad the Sailor (/ ˈ s ɪ n b æ d /; Arabic: سندباد البحري, romanized: Sindibādu l-Bahriyy or Sindbad) is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle.He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.).

  7. 500 mythology names to give your baby a powerful start in life

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    Luna, for example, is a name from Roman mythology and is the number 10 ranked name for baby girls. Others, like Eleuthia, have never cracked the top 1,000 list of boys ’ or girl s’ names in ...

  8. Open sesame - Wikipedia

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    In the story, Ali Baba overhears one of the 40 thieves saying "open sesame". His brother later cannot remember the phrase, and confuses it with the names of grains other than sesame, becoming trapped in the magic cave. Galland's phrase has been variously translated from the French into English as "Sesame, open", [2] "Open, sesame" and "Open, O ...

  9. List of works influenced by One Thousand and One Nights

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    At the end of the story, Shahra even used Scheherazade's regular 'that is a story for another time' line, to refer the continuing story of Sonic, Ali Baba and Sinbad. "Scheherazade" is the name of an unlockable bonus character in Soulcalibur IV. In battle she (using the same style as Amy) wields a rapier named "Alf Layla Wa Layla", the Arabic ...