The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05

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The Arabian Nights Entertainments has delighted and inspired readers for many years. The book focuses on a main story about the sultan Shahrayah and his wife Scheherazade, who shrewdly tells fascinating stories to her husband every night to save her life from his vengeance. But not finishing the story until the next night leaving him curious to hear every end of the story. The sultan’s wife tells different stories based on love, comedy, burlesque, fantasy, mythology, horror, destiny and so much more.

The main story starts when the sultan Shahrayar discovers of his brother’s adulterous wife and afterwards learns his own wife is also adulterous. He was very angry and he has his wife put to death and he considers that all women are the same. Then he starts to marry a virgin bride every night only to have her killed the next day so as not to commit acts of infidelity. But his vizer cannot give him virgins anymore so his daughter, Scheherazade offered herself as the next bride to his father. She tells these continuous stories every night in order to save her life.

The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 05 contains stories such as The Ebony Horse, Uns Al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter Al-Ward Fi’l-Akmam or Rose-In-Hood, Abu Nowas With the Three Boys and the Caliph Harun Al-Rashid, Abdallah Bin Ma’amar With the Man of Bassorah and His Slave Girl, The Lovers of the Banu Ozrah, The Wazir of Al-Yaman and His Younger Brother, The Loves of the Boy and Girl at School, Al-Mutalammis and His Wife Umaymah, The Caliph Marun Al-Rashid and Queen Zubaydah in the Bath, Harun Al-Rashid and the Three Poets, Mus’ab Bin Al-Zubayr and Ayishah His Wife, Abu Al-Aswad and His Slave-Girl, Harun Al-Rashid and the Two Slave-Girls, and many delectable and enticing stories.
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