Reporter: Rochelle R.
Bono Instructor: Ma’am Larah
Bautista
Year & section: BSE-English 2 Subject: Major 10- Survey in Philippine
Literature
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OR THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Arabian Nights known as One Thousand and One Nights.
Constructed as a “frame story” to which all the other tales are subsequently
added.
Collection of Middle Eastern and Southern Asian stories and folk tales
Arabian tales were the fairy godmother of English novel.
Author of Arabian Nights
Author of Arabian Night is attributed to anonymous because these stories are
by numerous authors from a range of ethnic, geographic, and literary
traditions including Arabic, Persian, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Jewish and
Indian
When was the One Thousand and One Night published?
First published during the Islamic Golden Age.
The first ten volumes which called The book of the Thousand nights and a
night were published in 1885 by Richard Francis Burton.
His Supplemental Nights were published between 1886 and 1888 as six
volumes.
Later pirate copies split the very large third volume into two volumes.
How many stories are there in the Arabian Nights?
The original collection only contained about 40 stories
While various versions and many new editions have expanded the number of
tales, the original Persian version of the 9 th-century only had around 200
tales.
Genre of Arabian Nights
Fairy tale
Fiction
Folklore
Frame story
Main theme of many Arabian tales and fables.
Hospitality
Fate and destiny
Good fortune
Adventure
Competition
Romance
Most popular story from the Arabian Nights.
Aladdin
Ali Baba and Forty Thieves
Sindbad the Sailor
The Vizier and the Sage Duban
The fisherman and the Jinni
What is the significance of the Arabian Nights in literary history?
Helped to unite numerous cultures under the umbrella of new Islamic
civilization.
