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One Thousand and One Nights which is often known in English as the Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, became widely known in the West from the 18th century, after it was translated from the Arabic — first into French and then into English and other European languages.

The original concept is most likely derived from a pre-Islamic Persian prototype that probably relied partly on Indian elements, but the work as we have it was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian folklore and literature.

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