Scheherazade
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Scheherazade (pseudonym) is the fabulous teller of the folk tales which collectively are described in English as The Tales of One Thousand and One Nights or The Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
Books
Alf laylah wa-laylah
Arabisch. Nach einer Handschrift aus Tunis herausgegeben von M. Habicht. (Nach seinem Tode fortgesetzt von H. L. Fleischer.).
The book of the thousand nights and a night
Sheherezade, daughter of King Shahryar's advisor, tells her husband a different story every night to keep the king from killing her.
The Arabian nights
Stories from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.
Arabian Nights
A retelling for younger readers of tales told by Scheherazade to amuse the cruel sultan and stop him from executing her as he had his other daily wives.