The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

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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 07 comprises stories such as The History of Gharib and His Brother Ajib, Otbah and Rayya, Hind, Daughter of Al-Nu’man, and Al-Hajjaj, Khuzaymah Bin Bishr and Ikrimah Al-Fayyaz, Yunus the Scribe and the Caliph Walid Bin Sahl, Harun Al-Rashid and the Arab Girl, Al-Asma’i and the Three Girls of Bassorah, Ibrahim of Mosul and the Devil, The Lovers of the Banu Uzrah, The Badawi and His Wife, The Lovers of Bassorah, Ishak of Mosul and His Mistress and the Devil, The Lovers of Al-Medinah, Al-Malik Al-Nasir and His Wizir, The Rogueries of Dalilah the Crafty and Her Daughter Zaynab the Coney-Catcher, and a number of beautiful and wonderful stories even older people can be fond of.
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