Title: Wahb ibn Munabbih
Content: of the Ark, they were sure of a victory. He narrated hadith from: F. Perles, in a series of papers contributed to "Monatsschrift" (xxii.), has pointed out that several of the stories of the "Arabian Nights"—mainly those taken from the Cairene additions—deal with Jewish topics or are derived from Jewish sources. V. Chauvin, in a special treatise on the Egyptian recension of "One Thousand and One Nights" (Brussels, 1899), has suggested that these Jewish tales and others were introduced by one of the last redactors, a converted Jew, probably the author of the "Story of a Man of Jerusalem," sometimes

Title: One Thousand and One Nights
Content: Burton's translation; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights (1907), Princess Badoura (1913) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights (1914). Others artists include John D. Batten, (Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights, 1893), Kay Nielsen, Eric Fraser, Errol le Cain, Maxfield Parrish, W. Heath Robinson and Arthur Szyk (1954). One Thousand and One Nights One Thousand and One Nights () is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706 –

Title: Arabian Nights (comics)
Content: comic adaptation of the tales remains faithful to the original tales, although the origins are not clear-cut. The story is a frame narrative, told by Scheherazade. Shariar, the King of India, was infamous for beheading his wives, due to his suspicions of faithlessness. After running out of women to marry and behead, the King goes to his Vizier, who reluctantly offers his daughter, Scheherazade. She uses her dazzling tales to keep the interest of the King as the night begins, until the day comes, so that she will not be beheaded overnight. Eventually, because of her tales, the King decides

Title: Islamic literature
Content: Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih's "al-ʿIqd al-Farīd" (d. 940 CE). The best known fiction from the Islamic world is "The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" ("Arabian Nights"), a compilation of many earlier folk tales set in a frame story of being told serially by the Persian Queen Scheherazade. The compilation took form in the 10th century and reached its final form by the 14th century; the number and type of tales have varied from one manuscript to another. All Arabian fantasy tales were often called "Arabian Nights" when translated into English, regardless of whether they appeared in any version of

Title: World Tales
Content: published but also from books published by his children. The title alone of one of his daughter Saira Shah's books, "The Storyteller's Daughter", gives some indication, while his son Tahir Shah's book "In Arabian Nights", itself an exploration of the power of the folktale, recalls: The book was first published in large format by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich with each tale illustrated. Originally Shah asked Ivan Tyrrell to find illustrations for the tales by the likes of Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen and Edmund Dulac. Tyrrell instead suggested commissioning new work, Shah agreed to this and the idea was put to, and

Question: Who was supposed to have told the Arabian Nights tales?
Answer: Scheherazade