The Arabian Nights
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One Thousand and One Nights.
is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.
It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition published in 1706.
The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, South Asia and North Africa.
The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature