Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights is one of the most well known collections of stories told around the world. The stories passed down from generation to generation in many different countries has brought endless entertainment to readers throughout the world, more specifically The Arabian Nights have become a pivotal past of Western culture with the wild tales of its character. The stories Aladdin, Princess Shahrazad, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor are forever in the imagination of Western civilization. The stories that span over several centuries and multiple countries began as a collection of folk stories and fables that were passed from one person to the next, slightly changing as the stories were passed along. Upon reaching the Western hemisphere, The Arabian Nights has become one of the most popular collection of stories to be introduced into literature, with a number of different adaptation of the story being told throughout the years. The Arabian Night tales have provided unlimited entertainment through the creative and imaginative telling of these stories. The Arabian Nights is a …show more content…
According to gale engaged learning, “the first written version of the Arabian Nights is a book Persian tales called Hazar Afsanah ( A Thousand Legends, written between 225 and 250), translated into Arabic around 850” (Zott 2). This quote is important because the reader needs to know when the first version was written. The first part of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1708. According to gale engaged learning, “ Scholar then began searching for a complete original copy of The Arabian Nights, but were unsuccessful”(Zott 2). Knowing that the original copy of the Arabian Nights was unsuccessful is important to the history of the stories. John Payne was the first to complete translation of The Arabians