I've heard of a different ending. She masterfully deliberately told stories about strong male protagonists many of which had a journey where they had to call on their humility, strength and kindness in order to save the day so to speak but essentially to live happily ever after as a wise and benevolent person. Over and over she made these characters relatable to the king and without his knowing he was imagining himself to be these heroes and over the course of 1001 nights, through the magic of story telling, he was changed from deep within. To quote Francis Glebas who wrote 'Directing the Story', "... and the sultan got lost in them, and in them he found himself." I think the moral being that we can instigate great change with our innate creative gifts... or something of the like.

The really cool part about 1001 nights is that its all one inter connected story. She doesn't finish a story and start a new one rather a character in one story tells a story to jinn to save his own life about a man telling a story to a sultan about some sailor who heard a story from someone...etc. I had to backtrack sooooo many times while reading the books to make sure i followed the entire plot and I'm still not sure I really did. The book also is filled with political commentary of the time period, amazing peices of poetry and such bizzare stories and social customs that it just hooks you. Easily one of the best Novels ever written in human history, shame it wasn't properly translated to other languages while keeping all the nuances of the story relevant.

The "still a good guy" killed me😆

Now that is a king who would make Henry the 8th seem most kind and humanitarian.

It’s not Arabian nights, the original name is 1001 and one nights. “Arabian” nights was a title made by followed because they do not know the difference amongst middle eastern people. The vast majority of names and dories in these books are in fact Persian. Sure there is also other regional stories but the base of the whole entire narrative is based on accent Persia.

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This really helped with my social studies report, thanks!

It's Persian Book

Aladin is not from China

i still wonder? did the girl still telling the story while her and the king having $ex and while giving birth in the middle of the night did the girl still continue telling the story to the king ?

The supernatural, mythological, folklore, and fictional parts do have some realistic values to it yeah.

Pierre Pasolinis movie is great .. 1001 Nights re-adapted...

🧞‍♀️ Pinball Arcade - Tales of the Arabian Nights playlist

Thx man needed this for homework they gave us a text but I wasn’t bothered reading all of that :)

I like your synopsis 🌟🙏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

thank you!!

Her name is SHAH-RA-ZAD, not shaherazeda lmao

thank you! just copy/ paste everything you said for my exam! xD

I really want to know what stories she told him. The inner stories, not the outer stories that you explained.

They made a cartoon after it