10, Issue. 1, The stories in the Thousand and One Nights, or the Arabian Nights, are familiar to many of us: from the tales of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and his forty thieves, to the ...

In One Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade invites the king to listen to her stories to preserve her own life. The new wife will be beheaded in the morning unless she convinces the king to keep ...