Original sentence: One Thousand and One Nights () is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age.Robert Irwin summarises their findings:.Some tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish and Turkish folklore and literature.The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves
Edited sentence: Beginning with a Persian Frame story about a fictional misogynist Persian monarch named Shahryār, the the work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa.One Thousand and One Nights ( from Middle Persian "Hezār Afsān" (literally Thousand Tales) () is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Persian (and later translated to Arabic due to Islamic Laws during the Islamic Golden Age).Robert Irwin summarize their findings:.Some tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish, Turkish and Arabic,  folklore and literature.What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial Persian frame story of the ruler Shahryār and his wife Scheherazade and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves