Who wrote the famous ( collection of arabian secret tales) book " The One Thousand And One Nights" ?

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Momo

1) Wrong section. You should have asked this question in "Books and authors" category.
2)Why do you pretend being interested about this topic? It is obviously a pretext for poking at Turks...As if you were not aware about the differences between Arabs, Turks and Persians...
3) @Allan D (black version) : I am Arab, and no, Arabs aren't Turks, and Turks aren't Arabs...Is that so complicated for you to understand such a simple thing ?

Hell no

They are not all arabian!!!!!!

They are arabian, persian, indian etc.

There are many many writers, not only one.

mikey-poo z.

A Persian wrote it..
also wrote the Rubaiyat or something.

Lord Percy Wooster IV

the translator is more amazing, if you saw Angelique Jolly in one of the early tomb raider movie , where she goes into her father;s tomb the movie tomb is based on his real tomb
every swashbuckling explorer is based on him, including Indianan jones
he also translated the kama sutra
went to mecca and medina when it was death for a non muslim

One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic: 'كتاب ألف ليلة وليلة‎ Kitāb 'alf layla wa-layla; Persian: هزار و یک شب Hezār-o yek šab Turkish: Binbir Gece Masalları ) is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East, North Africa and Indian subcontinent. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature. In particular, many of tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era and the Sassanid-era Pahlavi work Hazār Afsān (Persian: هزار افسان, lit. Thousand Tales). Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century.

What is common throughout all the editions of The Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryar (from Persian: شهريار generally meaning king or sovereign) and his wife Scheherazade (from Persian: شهرزاده generally meaning townswoman) and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves. The stories proceed from this original tale; some are framed within other tales, while others begin and end of their own accord. Some editions contain only a few hundred nights, while others include 1001 or more "nights."

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

he would see a blank bit of map and go off and explore it
he totaly fooled the muslims, he went to south america an amazing man
Sir Richard Burton

not elizabeth's husband

Mari Laveau（^ω^）♥

Omar Kayam, he born in Nishapur, the same city as my Iranian friend.
he was the first person who brought musical and entertainment into the Islam ritual.

goreeses

The writer was Omar Khayyan
He was a Persian Poet

some italian guy

al-Jahshiyari. It tells all about it in the link

luckyman

Senin ananı avradını sülaleni sikiim emi.piç kurusu.

ahanda korama

First: I agree with luckyman on his argument

Second: My grandfather wrote all those tales. He was a great author

amada

The tales in the collection can be traced to the ancient and medieval Arabic, Indian, Persian and Egyptian storytelling traditions.[1] Many stories from Indian and Persian folklore parallel the tales[2] as well as Jewish sources.[3] These tales were probably in circulation before they were collected and codified into a single collection. This work was further shaped by scribes, storytellers, and scholars and evolved into a collection of three distinct layers of storytelling by the 15th century:[1]

Arabic and Persian tales influenced by Indian folklore and adapted into Arabic by the 10th century.
Stories recorded in Baghdad during the 10th century.
Medieval Egyptian folklore.
The Indian folklore is represented by certain animal stories, which reflect influence from ancient Sanskrit fables. The influence of the Panchatantra and Baital Pachisi are particularly notable.[4] The Jataka Tales are a collection of 547 Buddhist stories, which are for the most part moral stories with an ethical purpose. The Tale of the Bull and the *** and the linked Tale of the Merchant and his Wife are found in the frame stories of both the Jataka and the Arabian Nights.[5]

The influence from the folklore of Baghdad is represented by the tales of the Abbasid caliphs; the Cairene influence is made evident by Maruf the cobbler. Tales such as Iram of the columns are based upon the pre-Islamic legends of the Arabian Peninsula; motifs are employed from the ancient Mesopotamian tale, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Possible Greek influences have also been noted.[6]

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