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Collection of Middle Eastern folk tales

"1001 Nights" and "Persian Nights" redirect here. For other uses, see One Thousand and One Nights (disambiguation), 1001 Nights (disambiguation), and Arabian Nights (disambiguation).

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ,Alf Laylah wa-Laylah), ^[1] is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.

It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English-language edition (c. 1706–1721), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.^[2]

The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, and North Africa.

Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, and Mesopotamian literature.^[3] Most tales, however, were originally folk stories from the Abb