The Arabian Nights Origin

The Arabian Nights Origin
The Arabian Nights is a collection of tales of undefined extent and identity. Outside the English-speaking world they are usually known as One thousand and One Nights. They often have been adapted or plagiarized. In the Arabic-speaking world the tales hold no preeminent or even clearly defined status. There is still no truly standard edition or translation. The intensive research on the tales authorship, date, and textual development has served more to reveal the complexities of these problems than to resolve them. Fiction in the Islamic culture was held in low regard in the formal civilization of classical Islam. Tales were told orally, and apparently only by and for common people. Maybe because of their popular colloquial nature that influenced against their being any recorded scripts explai...