1001 Arabian Nights In Telugu

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Origins and sources [ ] The tales of Sinbad are a relatively late addition to the – they don't feature in the earliest 14th-century manuscript, and appear as an independent cycle in 17th and 18th century collections. The first known point at which they are associated with the Nights is a Turkish collection dated 1637. Traceable influences include the epics (long familiar in the Arabic-speaking world, having been translated into that language as long ago as the 8th century A.D., at the court of the Caliph al-Mahdi), 's from the late-3rd/early 4th century A.D. Via the 9th century 'Book of Animals' of al-Jahiz, and, even earlier, in the ancient Egyptian 'Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor'. More 'recent' sources include works such the 'Wonders of the Created World', reflecting the experiences of 13th century Arab mariners who braved the. The Sinbad cycle is set in the reign of the (786–809).

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It first appeared in English as tale 120 in Volume 6 of Sir 's 1885 translation of. Tales [ ] Sinbad the Porter and Sinbad the Sailor [ ] Like the 1001 Nights the Sinbad story-cycle has a which goes as follows: in the days of, of, a poor porter (one who carries goods for others in the market and throughout the city) pauses to rest on a bench outside the gate of a rich merchant's house, where he complains to about the injustice of a world which allows the rich to live in ease while he must toil and yet remain poor. The owner of the house hears and sends for the porter, finding that they are both named Sinbad. The rich Sinbad tells the poor Sinbad that he became wealthy 'by Fortune and Fate' in the course of seven wondrous voyages, which he then proceeds to relate.

First Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ]. 16th century depiction of a sailing (Hormuz, present day Iran) in the. After dissipating the wealth left to him by his father, Sinbad goes to sea to repair his fortune. He sets ashore on what appears to be an island, but this island proves to be a gigantic sleeping whale on which trees have taken root ever since the world was young.

Awakened by a fire kindled by the sailors, the whale dives into the depths, the ship departs without Sinbad, and Sinbad is saved by the chance of a passing wooden trough sent by the grace of Allah. He is washed ashore on a densely wooded island. While exploring the deserted island he comes across one of the king's grooms. When Sinbad helps save the King's mare from being drowned by a sea horse (not a as we know it, but a supernatural horse that lives underwater), the groom brings Sinbad to the king. The king befriends Sinbad and so he rises in the king's favour and becomes a trusted courtier.

One day, the very ship on which Sinbad set sail docks at the island, and he reclaims his goods (still in the ship's hold). Sinbad gives the king his goods and in return the king gives him rich presents. Sinbad sells these presents for a great profit. Sinbad returns to Baghdad where he resumes a life of ease and pleasure. With the ending of the tale, Sinbad the sailor makes Sinbad the porter a gift of a hundred gold pieces, and bids him return the next day to hear more about his adventures. Second Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ].

Sindbad the Sailor and the valley of the. On the second day of Sinbad's tale-telling (but the 549th night of Scheherazade's), Sinbad the sailor tells how he grew restless of his life of leisure, and set to sea again, 'possessed with the thought of traveling about the world of men and seeing their cities and islands.'

Accidentally abandoned by his shipmates again, he finds himself stranded in an island which contains eggs. He attaches himself to a roc and is transported to a valley of giant snakes which can swallow elephants (like the ); these serve as the rocs' natural prey.

The floor of the valley is carpeted with diamonds, and merchants harvest these by throwing huge chunks of meat into the valley: the birds carry the meat back to their nests, and the men drive the birds away and collect the diamonds stuck to the meat. The wily Sinbad straps one of the pieces of meat to his back and is carried back to the nest along with a large sack full of precious gems. Rescued from the nest by the merchants, he returns to with a fortune in diamonds, seeing many marvels along the way. Third Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ].

Sinbad's third voyage. Encounter with a man-eating giant. Restless for travel and adventure, Sinbad sets sail again from Basra.

But by ill chance he and his companions are cast up on an island where they are captured by 'a huge creature in the likeness of a man, black of colour.with eyes like coals of fire and large canine teeth like boar's tusks and a vast big gape like the mouth of a well. Moreover, he had long loose lips like camel's, hanging down upon his breast, and ears like two Jarms falling over his shoulder-blades, and the nails of his hands were like the claws of a lion.'

This monster begins eating the crew, beginning with the (captain), who is the fattest. (Burton notes that the giant 'is distinctly '). Sinbad hatches a plan to blind the beast with the two red-hot iron spits with which the monster has been kebabing and roasting the ship's company. He and the remaining men escape on a raft they constructed the day before. However, the Giant's mate hits most of the escaping men with rocks and they are killed. After further adventures (including a gigantic python from which Sinbad escapes using his quick wits), he returns to Baghdad, wealthier than ever. Fourth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ].

Sinbad and the giant. Impelled by restlessness Sinbad takes to the seas again and, as usual, is shipwrecked. The naked savages amongst whom he finds himself feed his companions a herb which robs them of their reason (Burton theorises that this might be ), prior to fattening them for the table. Sinbad realises what is happening, and refuses to eat the madness-inducing plant. When the cannibals have lost interest in him, he escapes.

A party of itinerant pepper-gatherers transports him to their own island, where their king befriends him and gives him a beautiful and wealthy wife. Too late Sinbad learns of a peculiar custom of the land: on the death of one marriage partner, the other is buried alive with his or her spouse, both in their finest clothes and most costly jewels. Sinbad's wife falls ill and dies soon after, leaving Sinbad trapped in an underground cavern, a communal tomb, with a jug of water and seven pieces of bread. Just as these meagre supplies are almost exhausted, another couple—the husband dead, the wife alive—are dropped into the cavern.

Sinbad bludgeons the wife to death and takes her rations. Such episodes continue; soon he has a sizable store of bread and water, as well as the gold and gems from the corpses, but is still unable to escape, until one day a wild animal shows him a passage to the outside, high above the sea. From here a passing ship rescues him and carries him back to Baghdad, where he gives alms to the poor and resumes his life of pleasure. (Burton's footnote comments: 'This tale is evidently taken from the escape of the from the pit into which he had been thrown, a fox being his guide. The in an early day were eager students of.' ) Similarly, the first half of the voyage resembles the episode in The Odyssey, with certain differences: while a plant robbed Sinbad's men of their reason in the Arab tales, it was only Circe's magic which 'fattened' ' men in The Odyssey.

It is in an earlier episode, featuring the 'Lotus Eaters', that Odysseus' men are fed a similar magical fruit which robs them of their senses. Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ].

Sindbad's fifth voyage 'When I had been a while on shore after my fourth voyage; and when, in my comfort and pleasures and merry-makings and in my rejoicing over my large gains and profits, I had forgotten all I had endured of perils and sufferings, the carnal man was again seized with the longing to travel and to see foreign countries and islands.' Soon at sea once more, while passing a desert island Sinbad's crew spots a gigantic egg that Sinbad recognizes as belonging to a. Out of curiosity the ship's passengers disembark to view the egg, only to end up breaking it and having the chick inside as a meal. Sinbad immediately recognizes the folly of their behavior and orders all back aboard ship. However, the infuriated parent rocs soon catch up with the vessel and destroy it by dropping giant boulders they have carried in their talons. Shipwrecked yet again, Sinbad is enslaved by the, who rides on his shoulders with his legs twisted round Sinbad's neck and will not let go, riding him both day and night until Sinbad would welcome death. (Burton's footnote discusses possible origins for the old man—the, the —and favours the African custom of riding on slaves in this way.

) Eventually, Sinbad makes wine and tricks the Old Man into drinking some. Sinbad kills him after he has fallen off, and then he escapes. A ship carries him to the City of the Apes, a place whose inhabitants spend each night in boats off-shore, while their town is abandoned to man-eating apes. Yet through the apes Sinbad recoups his fortune, and so eventually finds a ship which takes him home once more to Baghdad. Sixth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ]. Sinbad during sixth voyage 'My soul yearned for travel and traffic'. Sinbad is shipwrecked yet again, this time quite violently as his ship is dashed to pieces on tall cliffs.

There is no food to be had anywhere, and Sinbad's companions die of starvation until only he is left. He builds a raft and discovers a river running out of a cavern beneath the cliffs.

The stream proves to be filled with precious stones and becomes apparent that the island's streams flow with. He falls asleep as he journeys through the darkness and awakens in the city of the king of (Ceylon, ), 'diamonds are in its rivers and pearls are in its valleys'. The king marvels at what Sinbad tells him of the great, and asks that he take a present back to on his behalf, a cup carved from a single ruby, with other gifts including a bed made from the skin of the serpent that swallowed the elephant ('and whoso sitteth upon it never sickeneth'), and 'a hundred thousand miskals of lign-aloesa', and a slave-girl 'like a shining moon'. And so Sinbad returns to Baghdad, where the Caliph wonders greatly at the reports Sinbad gives of the land of Ceylon. Seventh and Last Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor [ ]. 'The Caravan' from 'Sinbad's Seventh and Last Voyage.'

The ever-restless Sinbad sets sail once more, with the usual result. Cast up on a desolate shore, he constructs a raft and floats down a nearby river to a great city.

Here the chief of the merchants weds Sinbad to his daughter, names him his heir, and conveniently dies. The inhabitants of this city are transformed once a month into birds, and Sinbad has one of the bird-people carry him to the uppermost reaches of the sky, where he hears the angels glorifying God, 'whereat I wondered and exclaimed, 'Praised be God! Extolled be the perfection of God!' ' But no sooner are the words out than there comes fire from heaven which all but consumes the bird-men. The bird-people are angry with Sinbad and set him down on a mountain-top, where he meets two youths who are the servants of God and who give him a golden staff; returning to the city, Sinbad learns from his wife that the bird-men are devils, although she and her father are not of their number. And so, at his wife's suggestion, Sinbad sells all his possessions and returns with her to Baghdad, where at last he resolves to live quietly in the enjoyment of his wealth, and to seek no more adventures.

Burton includes a variant of the seventh tale, in which Haroun al-Rashid asks Sinbad to carry a return gift to the king of Serendib. Sinbad replies, 'By Allah the Omnipotent, O my lord, I have taken a loathing to wayfare, and when I hear the words 'Voyage' or 'Travel,' my limbs tremble'. He then tells the Caliph of his misfortune-filled voyages; Haroun agrees that with such a history 'thou dost only right never even to talk of travel'. Nevertheless, a command of the Caliph is not to be negated, and Sinbad sets forth on this, his uniquely diplomatic voyage. The king of Serendib is well pleased with the Caliph's gifts (which include, among other things, the food tray of King Solomon) and showers Sinbad with his favour.

On the return voyage the usual catastrophe strikes: Sinbad is captured and sold into slavery. His master sets him to shooting elephants with a bow and arrow, which he does until the king of the elephants carries him off to the elephants' graveyard. Sinbad's master is so pleased with the huge quantities of ivory in the graveyard that he sets Sinbad free, and Sinbad returns to Baghdad, rich with ivory and gold. 'Here I went in to the Caliph and, after saluting him and kissing hands, informed him of all that had befallen me; whereupon he rejoiced in my safety and thanked Almighty Allah; and he made my story be written in letters of gold. I then entered my house and met my family and brethren: and such is the end of the history that happened to me during my seven voyages.

Praise be to Allah, the One, the Creator, the Maker of all things in Heaven and Earth!' In some versions we return to the frame story, in which Sinbad the Porter may receive a final generous gift from Sinbad the Sailor. In other versions the story cycle ends here, and there is no further mention of Sinbad the Porter. Sinbad in popular culture [ ] Sinbad's quasi-iconic status in Western culture has led to his name being appropriated for a wide range of uses in both serious and not-so-serious contexts, frequently with only a tenuous connection to the original tales. Films, TV, animation [ ].

Illustration from William Strang's Sinbad the sailor and Ali Baba and the forty thieves • In 's suite, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th movement focus on portions of the Sinbad story. Various components of the story have identifiable themes in the work, including Rocs and the angry sea. In the climactic final movement, Sinbad's ship (6th voyage) is depicted as rushing rapidly toward cliffs and only the fortuitous discovery of the cavernous stream allows him to escape and make the passage to Serindib.

• In, 'Sinbad the Sailor' is but one of many pseudonyms used. • In his, uses 'Sinbad the Sailor' as an alias for the character of W.B. Murphy and as an analogue to. He also puns mercilessly on the name: Jinbad the Jailer, Tinbad the Tailor, Whinbad the Whaler, and so on. • wrote a tale called '. It depicts the 8th and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story. • Polish poet 's Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor is a set of tales loosely based on the Arabian Nights.

• Hungarian writer 's Adventures of Sindbad is a set of short stories based on the Arabian Nights. • In John Barth's ', 'Sinbad the Sailor' and his traditional travels frame a series of 'travels' by a 20th-century New Journalist known as 'Somebody the Sailor'. • The song 'Sinbad the Sailor' in the soundtrack of the Indian movie focuses on the story of Sinbad the Sailor in music form. In popular culture [ ] • Sinbad appears in the comic book series written by, and as the teenaged Alsind in the comic book series —which takes place in the 9th century —written. • 'The Last Voyage of Sindbad' by and originally appeared as 'New Tales of the Arabian Nights' serialized in magazine, issues #15–28 (1978–79) and was later collected and reprinted as a trade paperback book. • In the Arabian Nights-themed video game, Sinbad looks almost exactly like.

• In Alan Moore's Sinbad appears as the Immortal lover of thirty years, until he leaves for his 8th Voyage and never returns. • Sinbad provides the theme for Sindbad's Storybook Voyage at, for a at the theme park at, Netherlands, and for an elaborate live-action stunt show,, at the Resort in Florida.

• 'Nagisa no Sinbad' (渚のシンドバッド) was the 4th single released by, a popular Japanese duo in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The song has been covered by former idol group and by the Japanese super group.

• In 1978 manufacturing released a pinball machine named Sinbad, the artwork featured characters from the movie. Also released, in a shorter run, was an Eye of the Tiger pinball game. As well, Sinbad appears in the 1996 pinball game Tales of the Arabian Nights. This game (manufactured by ) features Sinbad's battle with the Rocs and the Cyclops as side quests to obtain jewels.

The game was adapted into the video game compilation in 2009. • Sinbad appeared in various video games for the PC's in the 1980s, such as a 1984 game simply called Sinbad by Atlantis Software. A 1986 game called Sinbad and the Golden Ship by Mastertronic Ltd.

Another 1986 game called The Legend of Sinbad by Superior Software. And a 1987 game called by Cinemaware. • 'Sinbad The Sailor' song appears in the Hindi movie • Comedian uses the stage name Sinbad. • Sinbad plays an important role in the 2000 novel The Amazing Voyage of Azzam as the often mentioned but never seen rival of the glory seeking main character. • Pulitzer Prize winner has a story entitled 'The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad' in his 1990 collection. • Sinbad is a major character in the ongoing manga series written. • In comic book series 'Get Some Fancy Book Learnin', Sinbad's adventures are parodied as Sinbart the Sailor • Sinbad has made numerous appearances in comic books as well.

In 1950, published a one shot comic called Son of Sinbad. In 1958, published a one shot comic based on the film. In 1963, published a one shot comic based on the film Captain Sindbad.

In 1965, published a 3 issue series called Sinbad Jr. Also that year published a 2 issue mini-series called The Fantastic Voyages of Sindbad.

Published a two issue series in 1974 based on the film in Worlds Unknown #7 and #8. They then published a one shot comic based on the film in 1975 with Marvel Spotlight #25. In 1977, the British comic company General Book Distributors, published a one shot comic/magazine based on the film. In 1988, published the one shot graphic novel The Last Voyage of Sindbad.

Published a 4 issue mini-series in 1989 called Sinbad, and followed that up with another 4 issue mini-series called Sinbad Book II: In the House of God in 1991. In 2001, published a one shot comic that teamed Sinbad with the called Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad. In 2007, published a 3 issue mini-series called Sinbad: Rogue of Mars. In 2008, the published a graphic novel called Sinbad: Sailing into Peril. Also that year, debuted Sinbad in their Grimm Fairy Tales universe having him appearing as a regular ongoing character.

He first appeared in his own 14 issue series called 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad. Afterwards he appeared in various issues of the Dream Eater saga, as well as the 2011 Annual, Giant-Size, and Special Edition one-shots. In 2012, a graphic novel called Sinbad: The Legacy, published by Campfire Books, was released. See also [ ] • • Notes [ ].

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In Meisami, Julie Scott; Starkey, Paul.. Taylor & Francis. Further reading [ ] • Copeland, CS; Mann, VH; Morales, ME; Kalinna, BH; Brindley, PJ (23 February 2005), 'The Sinbad retrotransposon from the genome of the human blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni, and the distribution of related Pao-like elements', BMC Evol Biol, 5 (1): 20,:,, • Marcelli, A; Burattini, E; Mencuccini, C; Calvani, P; Nucara, A; Lupi, S; Sanchez Del Rio, M (1 May 1998), Sinbad, a brilliant IR source from the DAPhiNE storage ring, 5 (3), J Synchrotron Radiat, pp. 575–7,:,. • Favorov, OV; Ryder, D (12 March 2004), 'Sinbad: a neocortical mechanism for discovering environmental variables and regularities hidden in sensory input', Biol Cybern, 90 (3): 191–202,:, External links [ ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to. • Mart, Stefan,,.

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(Click to play, Right click to Save As). The world’s most famous collection of magical stories originated in Persia and only later became known in the West as the “Arabian” Nights. The collection includes stories, within stories, within stories. This is the story that wraps around them all.

A terrible sultan marries a new bride every night, and in the morning he executes her. Only Scheherazade, the greatest story-teller the world has known, has a chance to soften the heart of the man with a tyrannical grudge against all women. The backdrop is quite harsh, but the stories are wonderful. Adapted by Bertie. Read by Elizabeth.

Duration 15 minutes. Proofread by Jana Elizabeth. Elmedia Player Pro Code Mac Download. Praise be to Allah, the beneficent King, the creator of the universe, Lord of the three worlds, who set up the sky without pillars to hold it aloft, who stretched out the earth like a bed, and who filled the ocean like a bath. Lend me the art and the craft of she who outwitted a great king. Of she who for 1001 nights captivated the Shah, while she threaded her plots around him, the woman whose stories held conquered the all-powerful man, and prevented him from carrying out his terrible intent.

I speak of her, Scheherazade, the greatest storyteller the world has ever known. She lived in a time of sorrow for the ruler of the land held in his heart an awful grudge against all women. This grudge had terrible consequences for every family in the land. But it was not always so. He began his reign with a kinder heart. His name was Shahryar, He was in the fullness of his youth and power, but as yet, without a wife.

One evening he stood with his younger brother, Prince Zaman, on the balcony of the palace, which overlooked the pleasure gardens. They watched a young serving girl as she stepped out to the fountain to fetch water. Shahryar whispered: “See brother.

Is she not as lovely as the moon and as graceful as a gazelle?” But Zaman, replied: “Do not let your eyes deceive you. Although you are older than me, and more powerful, yet I am more experienced in the ways of women, for I already have a wife.

I tell you no woman on earth has a pure and faithful heart. Each day I watch my Queen. I see her give a visiting prince such a look that makes my blood turn angry. But it does not stop there. She gives the chief chamberlain a cheeky smile that is quite inappropriate. Why, the day before I left my palace to pay honour to you, I saw her whispering to the cook!

She brings nothing but shame upon me.“ Shahryar laughed: “My younger brother, you have been looking pale and ill of late. Now I know the cause. Jealousy is eating you up because you have such a lovely wife!” At this Zaman became quite offended, but he replied in no more than a mutter: “My brother, you will learn for yourself in due time.” Shahryar was ready to marry. It seemed that wherever he looked he saw a beautiful woman. But none so lovely as the one the two brothers encountered the very next day. They got up at dawn to go hunting.

Just as the sun was spreading its gentle rays, they rode their horses side by side along the sea shore. Walking towards them, along the deserted beach, they saw a girl whose loveliness brought to mind the words: “She rose like the morn, as she shone through the night.

When she unveiled her face, the sun grew bright.” As the brothers drew near to her, she gave them the sort of smile that gladdens a man’s heart and Shahryar said to his brother: “I would not be ashamed to take her for my Queen.” But no sooner had he spoken, than a huge wave came curling into the shore, and standing on top of the wave was a great genie. His skin was orange and his eyes blazing red. As the wave broke into white foam, the genie leapt onto the beach, and seized the girl up in his hands. He turned his awful eyes on the brothers, and they were so full of fire that they feared his gaze might burn them up. Then he spoke.

His voice was terrible, but his words showed that he intended them no harm: “Hear me now and learn from my troubles. When I took this girl for my bride, I set her inside a trunk, and I placed the trunk inside another trunk, and that trunk inside yet another trunk – seven boxes in all, each with its own lock.

And then I placed the sevenfold container at the bottom of the sea, so as to keep her faithful to me. But still she managed to escape, to flirt with strange men on the beach, and to bring shame upon me. If I, a genie with all the power of magic at my disposal cannot keep discipline over my bride, what hope have you mere men of doing so?” As soon as he had issued this warning, both the genie and the girl spun round and round until they became a whirl wind that sped away across the sea. For the rest of the day Shahryar was pale and brooding.

By evening he had cheered up somewhat. As the brothers stood on the balcony overlooking the gardens, once again, he said: “The remarkable occurrence of this morning has made a great impression on me. I see now that you are right. The genie has confirmed what you say.

There was never one faithful woman on this earth. But I have thought deeply about this problem all day long, and I have formed a plan.

It was not long before his brother and everyone in the land found out what the Shah had in mind. As he sat on his throne the next day, giving orders to his ministers about this and that, he sent for his chief minister, a man who had served him for many years, and who had two lovely daughters whom in time, we shall meet, Inshallah! He commanded the minister to bring a bride to him that very evening, and in the morning to take her way to be executed. Each and every day he was to do the same, to bring another bride for him to marry, and in the morning to strike off her head. And so it came to pass for three years on end.

There was not a family in the land that was not touched by this tragedy. The people cried out against their Shah, and called on Allah to destroy him and his reign utterly. But his heart was relentless. By this terrible plan he made sure that none of his people would ever gather in a corner and gossip that his queen was faithless to him either in thought or deed. Mothers wept or fled abroad with their daughters.

At last there was hardly a woman left in the city who was of marriageable age. At last, one day, as the minster searched the city, he could not find a bride for the Shah that night. He returned home in sorrow and anxiety, for he was afraid for his own life when he failed that evening to present a new bride to the Shah. Now he had two daughters, Scheherazade and Dunyazad [ending is long like – “ard’] The eldest had read all the books, legends and stories in the library of the palace. She knew a great many poems off by heart, and had studied philosophy and the arts. She was pleasant, polite, wise and witty.

She saw that her father was looking sad and she quoted some lines of a poem to him: “Tell whoso hath sorrow Grief shall never last. Even as joy hath no morrow so woe shall go past” When the minister heard these words from his daughter, he told her the cause of his sorrow from first to last.

When she had heard it all Scheherazade exclaimed: “Who long shall we endue this slaughter of women? I will tell you what is on my mind. Take me to the Shah this night. Let me be his bride. Either I shall live by my wits and save the daughters of this land, or I shall join those who have perished already.” The minister heard these words, and although he greatly respected his daughter’s wisdom, he thought these words were the greatest foolishness he had ever heard.

He would not hear of his beloved daughter risking her life in this way. He went to the Shah and confessed that he was unable to bring him any more brides, for there were none left in the land. Shah Shahryar sat thoughtfully on this thrown and said: “None, but your own two daughters. Do not hide them from me, or it will cost you your head.” And so it was, after long deliberation, and much persuasion from Scheherazade that he brought his own daughter to the Shah as his bride. That night, when Scheherazade lifted the veil from her lovely face, the Shah was pleased with what he saw. But there were tears in her eyes.

“What troubles you?” asked the Shah, thinking that he knew the answer. But she replied not that she was afraid of what would happen to her in the morning, but that she was missing her sister. She begged that she could bring her to sleep with them that night, so that she would not be lonely.

The Shah willingly agreed, and all went according to the plan that the ingenious Scheherazade had formed. Her sister Dunyazad slept on a couch at the foot of the royal bed, and towards morning, as she had been told to do by her sister, she awoke and said: “Oh Scheherazade, I cannot sleep. Will you not tell me one of your wonderful stories? For there is not a soul on this earth who can spin a tale as delightful and delectable as yours?” And Scheherazade stirred and said: “I too cannot sleep and I will tell you a tale with joy, if this great king will permit me.” The Shah, who was also sleepless and restless, was pleased with the prospect of hearing a tale. And so Scheherazade began to relate the first story of 1001 Nights.

This is Maryam Soyuf Jahromi. Thank you for the story. I have read the whole book. I am so glad you put this story on Storynory. “The 1001 Night” is an IRANIAN story not Arabian one. Sherehezade, is an Iranian Queen.

The initial book was written in Arabic Language, but the author is Iranian. It was just because of the official language was Arabia, those days. All of concepts bring out Iranian Cultures. Please correct the mistake that has happened to introduce this story. Thanks Best Wishes, Maryam maryam — August 20, 2010 •. Hi Maryam Nice to hear from you. I am little puzzled why so many people are leaving comments about its Iranian origin, because I’m sure we say it originated in Persia and was later adopted into the Arab world in the introduction.

We do in fact have a lot of visitors from Iran, and I don’t want to offend any of them! It must have been ambiguous.

We could re-record the intro at the next recording session. I am finding the adaptation really hard though, because so many of the stories are so unsuitable for young listeners. The stories are wonderful, and I love the way there are stories within stories – I’m just finding it difficult to tone them down for Storynory without being too unfaithful to the originals.

I’m not 100% sure I did this one quite right. I had to cut some of the more colourful and fruity episodes, and replaced them with a slightly blokish conversation which I don’t think quite hit the right tone. I’m thinking of editing that out.

I’ve now re-edited the written introduction which I think might have been what people were referring to, rather than the audio. — August 20, 2010 •. This is a good story, and is inspiring enough. I would like to hear the CD “The Story of the World” for free if there is a way. I love imagining about stories; especially adventures.

🙂 This is a great story, I have many other things to say about this story, but it’s all about how good this story is. I didn’t hear the whole thing yet, but I already know that this is a good story from the start. I go to this website everyday.