Alf Layla wa-Layla (2 vol) One Thousand Nights and a Night

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Alf Layla wa Layla  One Thousand Nights and A Night [2 volumes]

Is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.

It is also known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (1706).

The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.

Throughout all the editions the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryar and his wife Scheherazade.

The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord.