Tales of Arabian Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales. Arabian Nights is also known as One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: أَلْف لَيْلَة وَلَيْلَة‎ ʾAlf layla wa-layla). The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. The tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Greek, Indian, Jewish, Persian and Turkish folklore and literature. In particular, many tales