Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), Scheherazade
Scheherazade () is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame story, frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the ''One Thousand and One Nights''. Name According to modern scholarship, the name ''Scheherazade'' derives from the Middle Persian name , which is composed of the words () and (). The earliest forms of Scheherazade's name in Arabic sources include ( ar, شيرازاد, Šīrāzād) in Masudi, and in Ibn al-Nadim. The name appears as in the ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' and as in the ''Encyclopædia Iranica''. Among standard 19th-century printed editions, the name appears as ar, شهرزاد, Šahrazād, label=none in Macnaghten's Calcutta edition (1839–1842) and in the 1862 Bulaq edition, and as ar, شاهرزاد, Šāhrazād, label=none in the Breslau edition (1825–1843). Muhsin Mahdi's critical edition has ar, شهرازاد, Šahrāzād, label=none. The spelling ''Scheherazade'' first appeared in English-langua ...
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One Thousand And One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian Nights'', from the first English-language edition (), which rendered the title as ''The Arabian Nights' Entertainment''. The work was collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central and South Asia, and North Africa. Some tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic literature, Arabic, Egyptian literature, Egyptian, Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit, Persian literature, Persian, and Mesopotamian myths, Mesopotamian literature. Many tales were originally folk stories from the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid and Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo), Mamluk eras, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Middle Persian literature#"Pahlavi" literature, Pahlavi Persian ...
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