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1.Posted by badmintoninsect on Jan 19 2008 at 10:42

hope you enjoy this, please take the time to leave a comment

2.Posted by serag on Feb 24 2008 at 00:05

ok
although i'm arab
but i'll listen to them in english
thanx

3.Posted by serag on Apr 11 2008 at 15:38

ok
what is arabian about this
may be names
but nothing more
jewels,gold,silver and genies .....
in every story..
are we a group of magicians ...

4.Posted by talese06 on Sep 01 2008 at 20:25

Serag, I'mma need you to calm down. You know there are mis-perceptions of every other race. Every other race of people has had to be demonized and persecuted just for some other race to feel superior. Pls tell me you knew that before now.

5.Posted by kaiprakid on Sep 04 2008 at 11:15

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: ???? ??? ???? ?????‎ - kit?b 'alf layla wa-layla; Persian: ???? ? ?? ?? - Hez?r-o yek šab) is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient India, ancient Asia Minor, ancient Persia (especially the Sassanid Haz?r Afs?n Persian: ???? ?????, lit. Thousand Tales), ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamian Mythology, ancient Syria, and medieval Arabic folk stories from the Caliphate era. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the fourteenth century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800–900.

6.Posted by kaiprakid on Sep 04 2008 at 11:16

he collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it) became widely known in the West during the nineteenth century, after it was translated — first into French and then English and other European languages. At this time it acquired the English name The Arabian Nights' Entertainment or simply Arabian Nights.

The best known stories from The Nights include "Aladdin's Wonderful Lamp," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor." Ironically these particular stories, while they are most probably genuine Middle Eastern folk tales, were not part of the "Nights" in its Arabic versions, but were interpolated into the collection by its early European translators.