One Hundred and One Nights (book)
One Hundred and One Nights () is a book of Arab literature consisting of twenty stories, which presents many similarities to the more famous "One Thousand and One Nights".
Persian literature
"One Thousand and One Nights" () is a medieval folk tale collection which tells the story of Scheherazade ( "Šahrzād"), a Sassanid queen who must relate a series of stories to her malevolent husband, King Shahryar ( "Šahryār"), to delay her execution. The stories are told over a period of one thousand and one nights, and every night she ends the story with a suspenseful situation, forcing the King to keep her alive for another day. The individual stories were created over several centuries, by many people from a number of different lands.