When1: 1400
When2: 1500
What: writer
Where: Cairo, Egypt/Baghdad, Iraq
works\ Arabian Nights or Thousand and One Nights [1400 to 1500: stories translated by Richard Francis Burton in 1850 as The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night]; Story of King Shahryar and His Brother; Tale of the Bull and the Ass; Fisherman and the Jinni; Tale of the Ensorceled Prince; Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad; First Kalandar's Tale; Second Kalandar's Tale; Third Kalandar's Tale; Eldest Lady's Tale; Tale of the Three Apples; Tale of Nur al-Din Ali and his son Badr al-Din Hasan; City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kilabah; Sweep and the Noble Lady; Man Who Stole the Dish of Gold Wherein the Dog Ate; Ruined Man Who Became Rich Again through a Dream; Ebony Horse; Angel of Death with the Proud and the Devout Man; Sindbad the Seaman and Sindbad the Landsman; First Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Second Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Third Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Fourth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Fifth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Sixth Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Seventh Voyage of Sindbad the Seaman; Lady and Her Five Suitors; Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad; Abu Kir the Dyer and Abu Sir the Barber; Sleeper and the Waker; Story of the Larrikin and the Cook; Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp; Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves [in which woodcutter says "open sesame" to open cave]; Conclusion.
Detail: Tales are about Baghdad court of Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid. Shahyrar, King of India, marries a girl each day and beheads her the next until Scheherazade, his vizier's daughter, begins to tell stories each night, always never revealing climax until next day. After a thousand and one nights, king relents. Stories feature djin and ghuls.
Mas'udi mentions her [944]. The Fihrist [987] says she was in the Hezar Afsan (Thousand Tales) of Princess Homai, Artaxerxes I's daughter.
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