# The Arabian Nights
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Author: Ujjwal Dadhich
Status: completed
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Categories: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller, Urban Fantasy, Mythology, Historical Fantasy
Tags: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Urban Fantasy, Mythology
## Synopsis
Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given inthis volume, are only fairy tales of the East. The people of Asia, Arabia, andPersia told them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people.There were no novels then, nor any printed books, of course; but there werepeople whose profession it was to amuse men and women by telling tales. Theydressed the fairy stories up, and made the characters good Mahommedans, livingin Bagdad or India. The events were often supposed to happen in the reign of thegreat Caliph, or ruler of the Faithful, Haroun al Raschid, who lived in Bagdad in786-808 A.D. The vizir who accompanies the Caliph was also a real person ofthe great family of the Barmecides. He was put to death by the Caliph in a verycruel way, nobody ever knew why. The stories must have been told in theirpresent shape a good long while after the Caliph died, when nobody knew veryexactly what had really happened. At last some storyteller thought of writingdown the tales, and fixing them into a kind of framework, as if they had all beennarrated to a cruel Sultan by his wife. Probably the tales were written downabout the time when Edward I. was fighting Robert Bruce. But changes weremade in them at different times, and a great deal that is very dull and stupid wasput in, and plenty of verses. Neither the verses nor the dull pieces are given inthis book
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- Chapter 1.00: [ The Arabian Nights](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-arabian-nights/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-arabian-nights.md)
- Chapter 2.00: [The Story of the Merchant and the Genius](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-merchant-and-the-genius/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-merchant-and-the-genius.md)
- Chapter 3.00: [The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-first-old-man-and-of-the-hind/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-first-old-man-and-of-the-hind.md)
- Chapter 4.00: [The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-second-old-man-and-of-the-two-black-dogs/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-second-old-man-and-of-the-two-black-dogs.md)
- Chapter 5.00: [The Story of the Fisherman](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-fisherman/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-fisherman.md)
- Chapter 6.00: [The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-greek-king-and-the-physician-douban/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-greek-king-and-the-physician-douban.md)
- Chapter 7.00: [The Story of the Husband and the Parrot](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-husband-and-the-parrot/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-husband-and-the-parrot.md)
- Chapter 8.00: [The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-vizir-who-was-punished/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-vizir-who-was-punished.md)
- Chapter 9.00: [The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-young-king-of-the-black-isles/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-young-king-of-the-black-isles.md)
- Chapter 10.00: [The Story of the Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-three-calenders-sons-of-kings-and-of-five-ladies-of-bagdad/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-three-calenders-sons-of-kings-and-of-five-ladies-of-bagdad.md)
- Chapter 11.00: [The Story of the First Calender, Son of a King](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-first-calender-son-of-a-king/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-first-calender-son-of-a-king.md)
- Chapter 12.00: [The Story of the Second Calender, Son of a King](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-second-calender-son-of-a-king/) [Markdown](https://chapterchase.com/the-arabian-nights/chapter/the-story-of-the-second-calender-son-of-a-king.md)
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