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The book no one wrote, told by everyone, to keep a woman alive till dawn.
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The One Thousand and One Nights has no single author. It grew over many centuries. Countless storytellers, scribes, and translators shaped it. The oldest core comes from a Persian collection called Hazār Afsān, meaning "A Thousand Tales", which was translated into Arabic by the 9th century. From there the book kept growing. Tellers in cities like Baghdad and Cairo added stories they knew, so the book took on local color as it traveled.
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- One Thousand and One Nights 9th century
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Illustrations are created with AI assistance. Summaries are written with AI and reviewed by the editor. Book metadata comes from Wikidata and Open Library.