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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of folktales from the Middle East compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as The Arabian Nights. It consists of stories within a story; the frame story is "The Story of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother" (or "The Story of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad"), in which Scheherazade tells tales to her husband Shahryar.
Characters in the frame story
Scheherazade
Scheherazade or Shahrazad (Persian: شهرزاد, Šahrzād, or شهرزاد, Šahrāzād, lit. 'child of the city') is the legendary queen who is the storyteller and narrator of The Nights. She is the daughter of the kingdom's vizier and the elder sister of Dunyazad.
Against her father's wishes, she marries King Shahryar, who has vowed that he will execute a new bride every morning. For 1,001 nights, Scheherazade tells her husband a story, stopping at dawn with a cliffhanger. This forces the King to keep her alive for another day so that she can resume the tale at night.
The name derives from the Persian šahr (شهر, 'city') and -zâd (زاد, 'child of'); or from the Middle-Persian čehrāzād, wherein čehr means 'lineage' and āzād, 'noble' or 'exalted' (i.e. 'of noble or exalted lineage' or 'of noble appearance/origin'),
Dunyazad
Dunyazad (Persian: دنیازاد, Dunyāzād; aka Dunyazade, Dunyazatde, Dinazade, or Dinarzad) is the younger sister of Queen Scheherazade.
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