Arabian Nights is a collection of ancient Middle Eastern and South Asian short stories and folk tales. They are also known as One Thousand and One Nights. The tales were collected over many centuries by authors, translators, and scholars across Asia and North Africa. Written originally in Arabic, the collection first appeared in an English-language edition in 1706. Many different versions of the tales exist. In some, there are a few hundred tales, while in others, there are 1,001 or more stories.
